2015-07-21 Infrastructure and Services Committee Agenda

INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                    21 JULY 2015


3                      TRAFFIC ADVISORY SPEED MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE JUNE 2015
CUMENT INF ORM ATION




Author                          Technical Officer – Transport & Traffic, Lewis Moes
                                Planning & Infrastructure Department

Index                           ECM/Subject/Traffic Management/Speed Management Committee
                                ECM/Subject/Traffic Management/Traffic Advisory Committee

Attachments                     1.   Action Matrix


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Not applicable.

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Technical Officer, Transport and Traffic to the Infrastructure &
Services Committee Meeting dated 21 July 2015 detailing the key outcomes of the Noosa Traffic
Advisory Committee and Speed Management Committee meeting dated 18 June 2015.


REPORT
The purpose of this report is to update Council on the key outcomes of the Noosa Traffic
Advisory and Speed Management Committee meeting held on 18 June 2015.

A number of issues were discussed, however a number of traffic investigations are still being
undertaken by the committee before any final conclusions can be made. These are listed in the
Action Matrix included at Attachment 1.

The key issue that was finalised at the meeting is in relation to a speed limit reduction on
Eumundi Noosa Road as set out below.

1.                     Speed Review – Eumundi Noosa Road

The Department of Transport and Main Roads (DTMR) undertook a review of the 100km/h speed
limit on Eumundi Noosa Road (generally between Emu Mountain Road and Beckmans Road)
and recommended at the previous traffic advisory committee meeting that the speed be reduced
to 80km/h. This review was not supported by the committee at the time and more evidence was
requested in relation to the crash data and speed statistics.

Crash data was subsequently provided by DTMR to allow further assessment. At the same time
Council staff undertook an investigation of the speed statistics gathered from our traffic counters.
This investigation suggested that 90km/h would be appropriate as there was no evidence of
speed being a contributing factor to accidents, rather road side vegetation being the primary
concern, and 90km/h would better reflect existing driving speeds.

The merits of changing the speed limit to either 80km/h or 90km/h were discussed in detail at the
recent meeting and the committee voted in favour of reducing the speed limit to 80km/h. This
comprised 3 votes in favour (1 x DTMR Road Operations, 1 x DTMR Road Safety and 1 x QPS)
to 1 vote against (Council).

DTMR will now have the speed limit reduced to 80km/h and change all necessary signage at no
cost to Council.


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