Highway reform hits holiday traffic jam
It’s no surprise users motorists are getting agitated with the lack of actions by our authorities to properly redesign and up grade the Princes Highway in the Eurobodalla Shire.
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Moruya is evidence of real traffic management chaos at the moment, getting more congested by the day.
Council staff are considering ways to make it difficult for highway users to use back streets to avoid traffic banking up at traffic lights in the main street.
The lights are only just part of the traffic chaos. Other causes are the two right turns heading north at each end of the Moruya bridge; our traffic expert engineers have known about the poor road intersection and traffic light matters for many years and have apparently sat on their hands.
The traffic light and intersection poor engineering is compressing traffic into large travelling big blocks, up to a kilometre long, further agitating drivers and very likely contributing to road accidents on the Princes Highway heading in both directions.
Those heading north come to Mogo, which has 40 and 50 kmh limits, with a bad intersection and narrow bridge at Tomakin Road further adding to the solvable mess. To top it off, we arrive at Batemans Bay – the traffic light town – which really stuffs traffic flows right up, agitating road users even more.
Our councillors and council staff need to start working together and have some serious talks with the various ministers for roads at all levels and senior RMS staff so funding can be identified and allocated over time to fix the mess.
Our councillors need to take control of resolving to meet with the RMS key people and start talking about the future highway needs or requirements and become a bit more responsible about the matter.
