Charlestown MP Jodie Harrison is again calling on the state government to address the ongoing dangerous traffic conditions along Hillsborough Road.
The Hillsborough suburb has two streets to enter or exit which both lead onto congested Hillsborough Road making it increasingly difficult for residents to find a safe gap in traffic to get onto Hillsborough road.
Jodie Harrison presented a motion in state parliament describing these issues residents are facing, saying it's causing an immense amount of stress to residents.
She says it is sometimes taking residents up to 20 minutes just to get out of Hillsborough onto the road and it's resulting in dangerous driving practices.
"It doesn't just affect the people that are coming out of Hillsborough the suburb, but it affects people who are using Hillsborough road and that could be people right across the Hunter."
"I've been calling for the release of the Hillsborough road traffic study which was funded by the government back in 2014. There is also a Hillsborough Road/Charlestown road traffic corridor study that's being developed now."
Since the end of 2014, Jodie Harrison has been pushing the government to do something and she says "the government should be pushing for those traffic studies to be released" and it is about time they did so funding can be allocated to the road to fix the problem.
"I really think it's time that the traffic studies are released and the government finally commit to funding the capital works that are actually recommended in those traffic studies."
