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POOR STATE OF PACIFIC HIGHWAY CAUSED FATALITIES: POLICE
Federal transport minister Anthony Albanese has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to making the Pacific Highway safe.
It comes as police blame a lack of dual carriageway for a horror week on the highway.
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This is what Anthony Albanese has in store for road users at Bulahdelah, NSW, if the RTA isn’t forced to use one of the safer alternatives available (extract from:
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‘THERE ARE RISKS TO DRIVERS on the proposed Upgrade, AND TO RESIDENTS of Bulahdelah associated with boulders falling from the cliffs and slopes upslope from the proposed Upgrade’.
‘THERE ARE ALSO RISKS OF SLOPE FAILURE of the colluvial material [“ancient landslide” (already-occurred landslide/s) materials of “silty-clay-sand-gravel”] DURING both CONSTRUCTION AND the OPERATION of the proposal’.
Ref – both of the above – the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority [RTA]: EIS Main Vol. 8.2.5.