B2B - Keeping you in the know
David Harris -Member for Wyong
Recently I bought to the Parliament ’ s attention a slow-moving planning disaster that is occurring in our area known to Council as Precinct 7a . To locals it is more commonly known as the residential area and bushland between Warnies Railway Cafe , the Pacific Highway in the south and Sparks Road in the north . The Main Northern Railways Line runs through the area , and at the moment there is a small railway station .
Currently , new housing estates are springing up all over the place . There is a new housing estate on Nikko Road , one on Railway Road , one on the corner of Virginia and Warnervale roads and another one on Warnervale Road . There will be roughly 1,200 new residents of Precinct 7a once these developments have been completed .
Then , drivers from all of these estates will empty on to Warnervale Road and add to the congestion on Warnervale Road , which crosses the railway line before its intersection with Sparks Road at a railway crossing .
Blind Freddy can predict that the railway crossing will become a massive problem with all the additional traffic on the road from the additional 1,200 residences in the precinct . Bearing in mind that the average residence has 2½ cars , we can predict that thousands of vehicles will be travelling along Warnervale Road to the freeway .
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a slow-moving planning disaster that is occurring in our area ”
I met with council on Monday and note that the council is aware of the issue . I asked if council had spoken to the State Government about the issue , and was told that it has made contact but has received no response .
The council tells me that this remains the case . In Precinct 7a we have an impending disaster that is not being addressed because there is a railway crossing that will lead to congestion with new and existing residents being forced on to Warnervale Road in order to access the freeway .
We know that the railway line is busy because there are regular passenger trains and , more importantly , freight trains , some of them around a kilometre long . We can imagine that between 5 a . m ., when tradies start to hit the freeway , and 9 a . m ., when school starts , there will be a bottleneck at the railway crossing when the gates close several times , sometimes for several minutes , to allow for the passage of trains .
It is simply not good enough to plan residential development of an area without at the same time planning transport upgrades , I am making it a mission of mine to have this inaction corrected and to make sure precinct 7a does not become like this .
Regards , David Harris MP , Member for Wyong
Winter 2018 | Business 2 Business with a Twist
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