I REFER to Mark Spinks’s letter (“Morisset traffic woes”, Lakes Mail, November 24).
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Traffic coming in from the peninsula seems to think it is their divine right to just keep driving, and not be courteous to other drivers on side streets.
I agree that traffic control through Morisset needs to be improved. It can take a long time for traffic to move through the roundabout at the junction of Freemans Drive and Wyee Road, which is where the problem starts.
Remove the roundabout and install lights in its place. Traffic from Wyee Road think they have the right of way instead of permitting traffic already waiting at the roundabout to enter.
But leave the traffic lights in Morisset alone! On occasions, I may be the only vehicle wishing to turn right onto the main road, Dora Street, to access the commuter car park at the train station, but I know I can do so in safety.
The lights at the Woolworths end of town also cater for pedestrians crossing, and there is usually a number of vehicles turning either left or right onto Dora Street, so leave them alone.
But there needs to be changes made to improve traffic control in the main street such as:
- parking bays to ensure cars don’t take up two spots;
- traffic lights or a roundabout at the intersection next to the service station, at Bridge Street; or
- a clearway to enable traffic wishing to turn right to access the upper commuter car park be given the privilege of doing so.
The road through Morisset is not wide enough to carry the volume of traffic that is currently being carried, and will only become worse as more housing is built.
- E K Thomson, Cooranbong