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Meetings:
Q&A Forum Questions
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Friday, 15 April 2011 19:11 |
- Can someone from the RTA explain the criteria used to determine which part of the Pacific Highway have bitumen and which are just the noisier concrete considering Moorland is the only settlement from Kew to Sydney that does not have the less noisy finish and in fact that there are sealed parts not even near houses or settlement?
- Can the RTA provide the results of the latest noise tests and what actions are proposed to alleviate the issue of increased road noise?
- Can the RTA explain why the community of Moorland should be worse off after the Highway upgrade because increased noise is impacting on the amenities of a far greater number of residents?
- Does the RTA in any way accept that increase in noise levels can be more than simply increased noise above a defined level at any one point?
- Can the RTA explain what is the financial difference between a Give Way sign and a stop sign and if there is no financial difference why for the sake of community safety or even peace of mind why the turn off at Hannam Vale Road should not have a stop sign?
- Can someone from THE RTA offer any explanation as to the high number of job losses that have resulted from closing of businesses resulting from the bypassing of Coopernook, Moorland and Kew and why these are so much greater than the various Environmental Impact Studies for the RTA suggested?
- Can the RTA indicate what actions they believe they should take to compensate local communities for loss of jobs resulting from the bypassing of communities?
- Moorland is the only community along the Pacific Highway from Turramurra to Port Macquarie that has been cut in two by the upgrade. All other communities have been bypassed completely or provided with an access road. Will the RTA please explain, despite repeated requests, why Moorland has no safe access road between the two parts of the community?
- Further to this, will the RTA explain why the flyover at Johns River has a footpath providing pedestrian and cycleway access whilst the Forest Road Bridge (flyover) does not, despite the fact that the Pacific Highway splits the community in two at that point, with many children and people requiring such safe access across the Highway to get to school, post office, soccer fields, tennis courts etc.?
- When will the RTA contact Greater Taree City Council regarding the inclusion of a shared path between the two Moorland precincts in its Bike Plan. We were assured by the RTA that there is a dollar for dollar funding contribution available from the Bike Plan for such eligible works?
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