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Speaker 1: Speed limits around Adelaide. They've been controversial. Councils have made decisions,

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Speaker 1: governments have made decisions to reduce mostly speed limits. You

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Speaker 1: recall Adelaide some years ago, fifteen years ago had a

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Speaker 1: number of seventy eighty K limits right around the city.

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Speaker 1: The last of those to go most recently was along

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Speaker 1: Airport Road. No, not Airport Road, of course, it's Tapley's

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Speaker 1: Hill Road down by Harbortown. That's all sixty along there now.

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Speaker 1: It was eighty for many many years, and Donald Bradman

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Speaker 1: Drive as it was Burbridge Road back in the day

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Speaker 1: along the side of the airport was next to the

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Speaker 1: golf course. There was eighty ks Cujonga eighty k through

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Speaker 1: there as well. All of that now sixty. And I

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Speaker 1: think if you need to find a fast road, you're

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Speaker 1: out on the Expressway or the Southeastern Freeway, North South

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Speaker 1: Expressway out to the north of the city, the Southern

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Speaker 1: Expressway down south, or the Freeway itself, and that's about it.

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Speaker 1: There wouldn't be too many other places main North Road,

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Speaker 1: I suppose going out past Parafield Airport, but wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: a lot left just in the metro area. David Leech

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Speaker 1: is mayor of the Mount Barker District Council and the

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Speaker 1: proposal is along Wellington Road, pass the turnoff to Strath Albin.

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Speaker 1: That road reduces down from one hundred to eighty. It's

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Speaker 1: a road that takes you through to Langhorn Creek for

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Speaker 1: about two point three kilometers or so. David Leitch, good morning.

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Speaker 1: What's the need for this. It's a reasonably quiet road

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Speaker 1: once you pass the turn off to Strath which is

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Speaker 1: a lot busier down the road there.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Matthew. The roads out in the Adelaide Hills

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Speaker 2: are a place where people do have accidents, cause death injury,

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Speaker 2: and whatever council and the Department of Infrastructure and Transport

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Speaker 2: can do to make them safer is always a good thing.

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Speaker 2: So this has been done for safety reasons. And I

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Speaker 2: can tell you now that the two point three kilometers

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Speaker 2: east of that intersection you're referring to has been approved

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Speaker 2: have reduced from one hundred to eighty, but not the

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Speaker 2: last three kilometers to the boundary with Alexandria and a

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Speaker 2: council well, why are we that section then?

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Speaker 1: Why not do the whole thing?

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Speaker 2: It's a very good question. It's to do with the

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Speaker 2: balance between what is safe and what is efficient for

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Speaker 2: people to travel around the district. Roads in that area

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Speaker 2: are not like as perfect as anybody would really want

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Speaker 2: them to be, but for how they would build whenever

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Speaker 2: they're worth thirty forty fifty years ago for purpose, then

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Speaker 2: we have an increase in traffic. And it's just the

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Speaker 2: way life is. It's every road can't be eighty kilometers now,

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Speaker 2: that's not practical. Every road can't be one hundred kilometers now,

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Speaker 2: that's not safe.

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Speaker 1: Is it the proposal to reduce the speed on other

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Speaker 1: roads in your area?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? A council frequently recommend to dead reductions in speed limits,

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Speaker 2: and three quarters of the time that we make a

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Speaker 2: recommendation to depth it is followed through in that application.

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Speaker 1: Is there a history of road crashes on Wellington Road.

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Speaker 2: There's a history of road crashes throughout the hills. The

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Speaker 2: majority of accidents that happen in the Hills happen around

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Speaker 2: the Mount Barker precinct, and the majority of accidents that

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Speaker 2: do happen are on roads that are between eighty and

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Speaker 2: one hundred and ten kilometers per hour. So it's one

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Speaker 2: of those things. Do you want to be able to

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Speaker 2: get somewhere faster, or do you want to get this safer?

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Speaker 1: Apart from the freeway, you wouldn't have any one ten

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Speaker 1: k roads in your area, would you.

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Speaker 2: No, All roads in country areas that are outside of

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Speaker 2: the freeways and the major highways a default one hundred

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Speaker 2: kilometers in there. But I think the important thing to

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Speaker 2: that three kilometers. That additional three kilometers takes twenty six

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Speaker 2: seconds longer to do it at eighty K than one

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Speaker 2: hundred k.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's six seconds.

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Speaker 1: Look, road safety is paramount, no argument about that. But

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Speaker 1: I suppose the thing that piqued my interest was that

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Speaker 1: only a portion of the road is being reduced, and that,

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Speaker 1: to me, I've got to say, makes no sense. You

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Speaker 1: either do the whole lot from Long Valley Road all

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Speaker 1: the way to essentially Langhorn Creek, or you don't do

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Speaker 1: any of it.

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Speaker 2: No, that's not so. The closer you get towards town,

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Speaker 2: the denser the allotments are. There are more people that

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Speaker 2: would be turning left and right, and road conditions changed,

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Speaker 2: that road could be made to one hundred kilometers in

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Speaker 2: now standard all the way through, But the cost benefit

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Speaker 2: of doing that is just not there. Department of Infrastructure

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Speaker 2: and Transport have a very good relationship with council. The

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Speaker 2: roads up here in Adelaide are pretty good. I must

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Speaker 2: tell you now that if you drive to the speed

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Speaker 2: limits on the roads in the Adelaide Hills, you're pretty.

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Speaker 1: Safe, all right, David, appreciate your time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, Manthie.

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Speaker 1: David Leech, Mayor of Mount Barker District Council, Adrian Cheedah

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Speaker 1: Council are up in the Adelaide Hills Council. Once a

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Speaker 1: raised pedestrian crossing on the main street through Crafers and

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Speaker 1: the speed limit they're reduced to forty kilometers an hour. Adrian,

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Speaker 1: good morning. What's the rationale eg?

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Speaker 3: Mining The crafers have seen significant change over the years

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Speaker 3: from what it used to be. I've been up in

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Speaker 3: the hills coming up to a decade now and proprided

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Speaker 3: my arrival there there wasn't a third lane onto the

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Speaker 3: under the freeway outbound. We've got a fantastic new parking

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Speaker 3: riode opening up some opportunities for public transport, but also

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Speaker 3: you know the aging and place challenge that we have

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Speaker 3: in the Adelaide Hills and making sure that we can

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Speaker 3: provide safe passage pedestrians to access amenities. The conversation I

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Speaker 3: started having, which led to Tadlade Hills Council's resolution to

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Speaker 3: have a conversation with a diet to see what options

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Speaker 3: there were. Really really honed in on the fact that

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Speaker 3: people need to feel comfortable moving around their area, and

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Speaker 3: that was what the line of questioning was. It really

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Speaker 3: is taking advices from DiPT but also understanding what residents

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Speaker 3: need and look forward to be able to live and

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Speaker 3: stay till safe in their townships.

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Speaker 1: Driving through that area, I presume you're talking the bit

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Speaker 1: between the two roundabouts as you come into Crafers and

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Speaker 1: then as you're leaving towards Allgates, so that section through

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Speaker 1: there and you can't realistically during the day anyway sort

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Speaker 1: of nine till five or eight till six or whatever

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Speaker 1: you want to say. You can't realistically do a lot

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Speaker 1: more than forty anyway. You run a bend this cars

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Speaker 1: coming in and out of compos it's not a fast

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Speaker 1: moving area.

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Speaker 3: I probably probably disagree with that really. I am also

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Speaker 3: a residents Prices further down the way, so certainly an

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Speaker 3: area I come through a lot, and many of the business,

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Speaker 3: especially the Crafit's Hotel Award winning hotel. It's just been

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Speaker 3: huge increases in patronage over the years. But it is

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Speaker 3: an area that has ebbs and flows at certain peak times.

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Speaker 3: But the driver of behavior is one of the big

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Speaker 3: big challenges to address. You know, there is an expectation

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Speaker 3: from that people will drive to the conditions, but that

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Speaker 3: often isn't the case. I spent time with the residents

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Speaker 3: there hours at a time, sitting and watching and you

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Speaker 3: can see those challenges that people, especially moving on to

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Speaker 3: that freeway are coming on at quite aggressive speeds prior

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Speaker 3: to the hundred of scigns. So the driver of behavior

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Speaker 3: is one part of it, but the changes in speed,

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Speaker 3: things like raise pedestrian crossings are quite strong visual aids

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Speaker 3: to indicate the drivers that this is an area where

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Speaker 3: you need to be concerned about pedestrian movements. And I

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Speaker 3: think that's what it's looking to achieve.

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Speaker 1: Okay, would you like it police? Should it be policed now?

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Speaker 1: If people aren't doing the right thing through there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, there's so many competing priorities when you

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Speaker 3: think of speed in the Adelaide Hills and safe areas.

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Speaker 3: A big part of this was some of the quotes

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Speaker 3: and residents which were in the article from Adelaide Hills

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Speaker 3: through in that Barkat Courier that feeling of safety is

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Speaker 3: just as important when it comes to accessibility. That that

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Speaker 3: comfort in your ability to cross the main street, to

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Speaker 3: use your local services to navigate around the area provides

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Speaker 3: a real sense of confidence for people to access those services.

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Speaker 3: And there were residents that described that needed that feeling

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Speaker 3: to understand that there was support from that request to

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Speaker 3: be forty kilometers now weather pedestrian crossings and gave that

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Speaker 3: extra visual aid. But it's not just about the actual

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Speaker 3: outcome and the policing. This is also the feelings and

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Speaker 3: impacts of residents to be able to leave their home

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Speaker 3: and use the township to its most.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely all right, Adrian, appreciate your time. Thank you all.

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Speaker 1: Adrian Cheeah there who is councilor Adelaide Hills Council