I think it is high time that Central Coast Council removed the roadworks signs on Peats Ridge Rd.
These signs have been there for at least three weeks, with no sign of workers, machinery or anything else that would suggest roadworks.
If Police are around when motorists are driving through these supposed roadwork areas and the motorists are not driving at the advised speed then they will get booked for speeding through roadworks.
It would be a good idea if Central Coast Council would send workers out to fix the potholes on George Downs Dr as far as the Letter A and beyond, instead of stopping at Kulnura.
Surely there are enough workers and machinery at Mangrove Council Depot to attend to this problem, instead of local residents having to mark out the hazards with paint on the road.
Email, Apr 23
Christine Woods, Murrays Run
You are being foolish Ms Woods, did you think that the signs might be up because the road is dangerous in its current condition not needing a work crew there. If you knew what you were looking at you would know by the signs that are up it doesn’t say there are workers on site.
Yet another show of incompetence from the engineering department of council..
it is same on the central coast highway between budgewoi and doylson.
Yes, completely agree. Central Coast council are useless. I live in the Tuggerawong area where most roads in the area are like third world country roads. Signs where nothing is happening & when roads are fixed, not done properly and potholes start again within weeks. Most complained about council in NSW but nothing is ever done about it. What a disgrace…
Same situation applies along
Scenic Drive Buff Point to Budgewoi-discussing
My feelings exactly. start a petition I will sign it. I was coming home that Friday night before the road works sign were out in place. it wasn’t pleasant but if you drove to the conditions you got hone OK.
similar to the Pacific Highway north of Kanangra Drive. A quick job of putting gravel on the road, then 4 weeks later marking the lanes but leaving it as a Road Works Zone for the entire period. Now an electronic sign inside the work area states ‘road works starting soon’. I believe it’s just a cheap ploy to not have to pay traffic controllers to move the signs.
Always has been an issue Christine. To have respect for roadwork signs means those in charge of those signs need to have some respect for motorists otherwise the signs will be ignored! And for the smarty pants our there who say just say follow what the signs say, life’s a two street!
I’m 45, I have friends that have worked on the roads for 30 years and I have asked them questions about road works and road signs and how it works. I started by saying I remember when I first started driving in the mid 90s, after hours for road works being done the signs were always covered and that meant you could proceed at usual speed with caution right and they said right but now it’s all changed. so I’m like please explain this to me, well a couple of factors come into play, the main reason is so the company that’s doing the work will not be held liable if there’s an accident for after hours. the other reasons don’t really matter but there are other reasons. I thinking it’s like the blind leading the blind with the RTA, I get different answers from most of the staff about most road rules and even different licences would you believe that?? sorry about poor grammar guy’s I didn’t do well with reading and writing I actually learnt a little more out of school believe that or not lol
l don’t know about the road work signs. But I do know about the the large amount of potholes in the Green Point and the Erina local area. The patch work is not alleviating the issues while rates keep going up. So it’s probably fair to say while consumers are feeling the cost of living pressure. Government can callout supermarkets for price gouging Councils need to be called out for consistent rate gouging while we dodge damaging pot holes with no claim against council for poor up keep and denial of responsibility not forgetting the mass mismanagement of rate payer funds passed on the the rate payers to cop.
No workers but signs up is commonplace. I recently used the Hume Motorway and there was a relatively new resealing but now line-marked that had signs up, so in theory all the traffic had to slow from 110kph to 80kph (although not many did).
The problem is that there are so many of these situations and drivers ignore them because there is no evidence of roadworks; then along comes a genuine roadwork and drivers also tend to not slow down.
If I were a cynic I would say that the police love these “phantom” roadworks and signs because it means that can catch so many more people breaking the “so called speed limit”.