Page 384 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 21 March 2023
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To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory
The following residents of the ACT draw the attention of the Assembly to the safety of Nullarbor Avenue in Harrison.
Nullarbor Avenue in Harrison is a suburban street that includes a school, school zone (Harrison School), playing fields (Harrison playing field 1 and 2), the heritage listed Wells Station farmstead and suburban houses. The street is also in proximity to Mother Teresa Primary School and Mullion Park.
The street was originally a cul-de-sac with the opening of the street to Wells Station Drive. The street is seeing higher and higher use and high speed through traffic. This through traffic poses a safety risk to residents, other vehicle users of the street, including bus services, and the large number of community pedestrians such as school children walking along the street to attend school or sporting events.
The high speed through traffic is also causing extra and unnecessary neighbourhood noise, making it difficult for residents living on the street to cross the road, exit and enter their driveways and park. The speed limit for the street is currently set at 60km/h and is without speed controls at the residential end, nearer to Wells Station Drive. The speed is above the standard for ACT governments priority on better neighbourhoods.
Your petitioners, therefore, request the Assembly to call on the ACT Government to reduce the speed of Nullarbor Avenue to 50km/h (maintaining the 40km/h school zones and no trucks policy) and introduce speed controls to increase safety to the community, better the neighbourhood and reduce through traffic of this residential street.
The Clerk having announced that the terms of the petitions would be recorded in Hansard and referred to the appropriate ministers for response pursuant to standing order 100, the petitions were received.
Ministerial responses
The following responses to petitions have been lodged:
Richardson shops—leasing—petition 31-22
By Mr Barr, Chief Minister, dated 21 February 2023, in response to a petition lodged by lodged by Ms Lawder on 22 November 2022, concerning Richardson shops.
The response read as follows:
Dear Mr Duncan
Thank you for your letter of 5 December 2022 regarding petition 031-22, lodged by Ms Nicole Lawder MLA. The petition draws the Assembly’s attention to the condition of the Richardson Shops, with some having been vacant for an extended period of time. The petition also highlights the concern this is causing some Richardson residents.
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