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MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, LAND AND PLANNING

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 588

Traffic Surveys - Hughes

Mr Cornwell - asked the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning

(1) Have any recent studies been undertaken into (a) noise levels and (b) lead levels from vehicles in Kitchener Street, Hughes.

(2) If so, when were these studies conducted and what were the results.

(3) If not, why not.

Mr Wood - the answer to the Members question i:=,, as follows:

(1) (a) No traffic noise surveys have been recently undertaken on Kitchener Street, Hughes.

(b) No recent surveys have been undertaken into lead levels from vehicles in Kitchener Street, Hughs.

(2) Not applicable since surveys were not conducted.

(3) (a) I am advised traffic noise surveys have not been conducted on Kitchener Street recently, as the Roads and Transport Branch (Department of Urban Services) has not been notified of any traffic noise problems in Kitchener Street.

The Roads and Transport Branch (Department of Urban services) is managing a project involving the investigation of local area traffic management issues in the Hughes/Garran area, including Kitchener Street. The principal issues raised via a residential survey were traffic volumes and traffic speeds on some of the local area streets, (specifically Kitchener and Kent Streets). Traffic noise was not cited as a specific issue, though concerns were expressed in terms of the noise generated by the principal problem of high traffic volumes.

Preliminary calculations using the Calculation of Road Traffic Noise (CORTN) model suggest that the noise level at lm in front of the nearest facade of residences in Kitchener Street may be in the vicinity of 66-6 % dB (A) L10, 18hr which is above the

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