For all the new development being approved by council at the moment, an epic planning fail continues to get worse by the day and needs to be addressed before it’s too late.
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The lack of a link road between Lake Innes and the Lighthouse area impacts upon thousands and thousands of ratepayers every single day.
Council approves more and more new development in existing areas without getting the traffic flows right.
Take a look at Ocean Drive, Lake Road, and the Oxley Highway at peak times. It is a complete and utter mess which forces masses of frustrated drivers ‘through’ the industrial area, clogs access to the hospital, and could so easily be improved with a link road (free of development) joining Lake Innes and Lighthouse.
Will our town planners and every councillor please stand up to be counted on this now?
At a glance of the map there are many options, including a possible connection through to Emerald Drive, easing the pressure on a road system that is failing to cope.
What a horrible legacy on our current councillors and planners if they don’t address this immediately, and risk condemning future generations to eternal gridlock.
The link road would alleviate the volumes of traffic currently being herded into a ridiculous and unnecessary snarl, unwanted by all caught up in it.
It would also give the residents of Lake Innes, who have been hemmed into a council-created enclave, direct access to our beautiful beaches via Matthew Flinders Drive and Pacific Drive.
Great for real estate values, great for making Port Macquarie easy to get around.
It’s about traffic flow, not the current fail.
We don’t want the Sydney experience here.
Perhaps council should hold its next travelling meeting over Lake Innes way when its tradie knock-off time and pick-up at St Columba.
If you are nodding your head in frustration at this, please make sure you let our councillors know. You can contact all of them directly via council’s website.
Let’s not let greedy ‘over development’ destroy what we already have, and why we want to be here in the first place.
And as a final question to each councillor and planner reading this – at what point have you made this place worse, rather than better?
Perhaps there is a point where more is not better, it’s just too much.
Brian Johnson, Port Macquarie
