The main road access to Mullumbimby is Mullumbimby Road. Myocum Road provides a secondary access, and Coolamon Scenic Drive provides a very limited access on a very narrow and quite dangerous road.
Roadworks at the intersection with McAuleys Lane are already causing major delays to traffic entering or leaving Mullumbimby because of the traffic lights, and some traffic is already using Myocum Road and Coolamon Scenic Drive to avoid the long delays. This is raising the risk of a serious accident occurring particularly on Coolamon Scenic Drive. This situation will become more critical if all outbound traffic from Mullumbimby cannot use Mullumbimby Road in the near future as proposed by Council.
The cost to business and the time spent by residents in long traffic queues has to be borne by the community at large.
As part of the decision-making by Council, the above costs should have been taken into consideration. If this had been done, I am sure the lowest-cost option would have been to carry out the construction work at night under floodlights.
To make matters worse, I am told that the roadworks are being carried out to allow a subdivision in McAuleys Lane to proceed. If this subdivision was unable to bear the full cost of the roadworks, including working at night, it should not proceed.
The traffic on Mullumbimby Road is growing such that a dual carriageway is justified in the near future. If this had been implemented before the roadworks at McAuleys Lane were started, the extra lanes would have resulted in much less traffic disruption.
I am astounded to think that Council has proceeded with these roadworks without duly considering the disruption that has already caused and will continue for time into the future.
Chris Abraham
Mullumbimby
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