Appendix 2 - Traffic impact assessment

Traffic Impact Assessment – Commercial Development at Weyba Road, Noosaville                  CC-3668



2. EXTERNAL TRAFFIC OPERATIONAL IMPACTS
The performance of a road network is primarily governed by the performance of the intersections
throughout the network. The critical intersection identified in previous revisions of this report, in
terms of operational impacts from the development proposal, was considered to be the adjacent
roundabout controlled intersection of Weyba Road, Mary Street and Reef Street, refer to Figure 1.1
for aerial photograph. As the development traffic will be further split at this intersection of three
higher order roadways (all sub-arterial road type), it was contended that traffic operational impacts
further downstream would be negligible and the development generated traffic would form part of
the anticipated growth rate of traffic volumes on the road network.

The Hungry Jacks component of the proposal has however been deleted and the service station
component of the development is existing and currently operating from the site at a comparable
scale to the redevelopment proposal. Essentially, all development generated traffic will now be
undiverted drop-in traffic, as the traffic generated by the service station land use has already been
counted and accounted for in the background traffic volumes on the roundabout.

Although the revamped service station will initially present as a more pleasant and functional version
of the existing service station on the site it is fundamentally no different to the existing service
station or any of the other numerous similar service stations in the region. It is therefore not
envisaged that the existing customer catchment area will be increased by the revamp.

It is therefore contended that, operationally the proposed Service Station redevelopment will not
result in a material net increase in existing traffic volumes; therefore there will be no tangible
impacts on the adjacent roundabout controlled intersection or beyond throughout external road
network.




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