Griffith City Council will ask the RMS to lower the speed limit to 60 kilometers per hour from the Hanwood Roundabout to Bunnings
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Council will also request the lowering of the speed limit along Thorne Road to 60km/h within 200 meters each side of the intersection at Kidman Way.
Three local businesses have been vying to build new facilities near the high traffic intersection.
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Mayor John Dal Broi said “the developers did come to council saying that if the speed limit remains at 80km/h there will be a very large cost in installing overtaking lanes.”
Councilor Dal Broi said drivers may start taking Murrumbidgee Avenue and Old Willbriggie Road into town, but he is confident that trucks will stay on the Kidman when arriving and take the under-construction Southern Industrial Link Road east and west when bypassing.
“They have do tight turns and avoid a lot of traffic (pulling in and out) along Murrumbidgee Avenue, it would be worse for them” Cr Dal Broi said.
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