It’s official and probably doesn’t come as a surprise but Maitland motorists have named the Church Street and New England Highway intersection their greatest concern in a traffic survey commissioned by Member for Maitland Jenny Aitchison.
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Nine weeks out from the State election and voters have made their thoughts clear on our myriad of dangerous road junctions also listing Raymond Terrace Road and Hausmann Drive intersections at Thornton up there with the worst.
While the call has again been made for a west-bound flyover at Church Street, with 60 per cent of survey respondents listing this as their number one traffic priority, Mrs Aitchison said it is not an election issue.
She doesn’t want to raise expectations but is listening to the community. “It’s a disgrace we have no one from the government prepared to put their hand up and tackle these issues.
“We have housing estates being built and no assurance to ensure road work is in place. We’re carrying the weight of Sydney’s housing affordability crisis and doing nothing to assist with roads and infrastructure. This is something I am concentrating on throughout this term,” she said.
Rutherford’s New England Highway/Aberglasslyn Road intersection was another to come under scrutiny, with 16 per cent of survey respondents listing it top priority.
Parliamentary Secretary for Planning Scot MacDonald asked if this was an election challenge from Mrs Aitchison and if she was committing funds to it. “Is this a challenge put to us in the lead up to the election,” he said. “I don’t have a commitment on Church Street but we are talking to the RMS and it is on our radar.”
Last year Mrs Aitchison called on the state to provide urgent funding to fix the horror traffic gridlock at Church Street, fearing someone could die if emergency services became caught in the bottleneck.
