RoadNet has recently carried out a Road Safety Study for a section of the Pacific Highway between Nambucca Heads and Urunga on the NSW Mid North Coast for NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA).
The section is proposed to be bypassed in the future but a reversal in the Crash Rate in 2006 has continued to level where the community expressed concerns to the RTA.
RTA was engaged to carry out a road safety and speed zone review to see if there were things that could be done to make the highway safe until the dual carriageway upgrade could be completed.
Recommendations implemented to date include:
- A reduction in speed limits on sections that are now inconsistent with nearby upgraded sections of Highway
- Intersection upgrades and minor realignments.
- Upgraded signposting including Crash Zone signs
- Removal to two short overtaking lanes that were inadequate to allow safe overtaking. These have been replaced by a wide painted median island and turning bays at minor intersections.
- Clearing of roadside vegetation, improved delineation on guideposts and guardrail.
Other measures to address wet weather crashes are in the planning stage.
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