Helena Abdou
Hume council has vowed to push for Donnybrook Road to be duplicated to ease traffic congestion in and out of Kalkallo.
Councillor Jim Overend raised the issue during a council meeting on Monday, March 28, calling it a “crying shame.”
“There’s only one road in one road out which creates a massive backlog of traffic or big bottleneck, which adds an hour onto the residents commute in and out of the suburb which is appalling,” Cr Overend said.
Residents have been petitioning for a solution to the traffic issue and garnered over 1000 signatures before it was tabled in Parliament last week by Yuroke MP, Ros Spence.
Council is also raising the matter with the state government and is liaising with respective partners on what can be done to help.
“We do an investigation looking to council partners to see what we can do to try and alleviate some of the pain and the pressures as far as council goes, but we do also need the state government to do their part in duplicating Donnybrook Road,” Cr Overton said.
Mum of two Kylie Bourchier moved to the area last year and said the congestion is “awful.”
“I have two kids, one works full time and the other attends school and we can’t wait until our lease is up,” she said.
Ms Bourchier has to leave the house an hour earlier to drop off her children to ensure they get to where they need to be on time.
“I’m over it, I’m thinking I may need to break my lease to leave sooner.”
A spokesperson for Stockland, the developer of Cloverton said: “This is a regional issue and Stockland is working closely with council and relevant state agencies to progress a number of traffic solutions as soon as possible including a secondary access point to the community via a bridge onto Donnybrook Road.”
