BY DAKOTA TAIT
A Newcastle councillor is calling on State Government to reinvestigate the potential of an old project, to ease congestion on the region's road network.
The Wallsend-Mayfield Arterial Road project has been shelved for around 50 years, after first being proposed in the mid-20th century.
The path would ease pressure on overworked roads such as Maud St in Mayfield and Wilkinson Avenue in Birmingham Gardens by tracing a new route through a number of suburbs from Industrial Drive at the Pacific Highway.
Much of the land put forward to accommodate the road through Warabrook and Birmingham Gardens remains vacant, though it's likely a number of residential properties would need to be acquired.
Councillor Callum Pull has submitted a Notice of Motion for Tuesday night's meeting, pushing Council to write to Government and the Opposition to explore the project.
