The Yass Valley mayor has called on New South Wales Roads Minister Duncan Gay to release an overdue study into the staged duplication of the Barton Highway.<\/p>\n
In 2013-14, the NSW and federal governments each committed $150,000 to fund the study by NSW Roads and Maritime Services.<\/p>\n
Mayor Rowena Abbey said the study was due to be released last December.<\/p>\n
“We haven’t got it yet. We look forward to that,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It should be a document that actually steps out a staged, eventual duplication of the Barton Highway and identifying high areas to immediately do some improvements in traffic flows and risk management.”<\/p>\n
Ms Abbey said the valley’s population was growing at an average annual rate of 2.5 per cent and a Barton Highway duplication would be necessary to cope with traffic.<\/p>\n
“We have 3,500 commuters a day through the Yass Valley,” she said.<\/p>\n
“With the volume of traffic that we have, it is at times higher than the Hume Highway.<\/p>\n
“This is a major arterial road from Melbourne and Adelaide and Perth into Canberra and going through up to Sydney.<\/p>\n
“It is extraordinary that it is still a single lane road with very few overtaking lanes.”<\/p>\n
The Barton Highway was last year named the ACT’s worst road and also featured on the list of NSW’s worst roads.<\/p>\n
Ms Abbey said she hoped the recommendations in the report added weight to ongoing calls for further safety improvements to the notorious stretch of highway between Yass and Canberra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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