Coraki Quarry

Currently there is an 80 kph zone which cuts through our town past houses, driveways, a Council Depot and our only service station. If the trucks are going through the town on the Coraki-Woodburn Rd in the section called Queen Elizabeth 2nd Drive, please reduce the speed limit. Residents have been making requests for years to have the speed limit lowered. It divides the town and facilitates tourists ignoring a beautiful and historic town as it was the original European river town in the area. Also, please limit hours of operation from 8am until 4.30 pm and be mindful of school zones and school buses, as there is a complex network of school buses. All high school students are bussed in and out of the town daily to other regional townsl and children are bussed in and out of the two primary schools from the town and surrounding properties daily.

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I am concerned about the upgrade of the Coarki Quarry as I am a resident who lives in a house 14 meters off the Woodburn-Coraki Road.
We hear and feel every heavy vehicle that passes the house.
There has been no assessment of rural access's and lines of sight, nor of the line of sight on the Woodburn - Coraki Road, particularly between Reardons Lane and Swan Bay New Italy Road.
I commend MRCagney to find a decent section of the Woodburn -Coraki road to submit in figure 2-7
I am a farmer who regularly drives my tractors between properties using the Woodburn - Coraki Road, I occasionally move a harvester on this road. This is usually done during the quitter times on the road, under this submission there will be only daylight hours on Sundays that will be quiet.
Since the increase in material being moved from the quarry in the past few weeks we have had two incidents leaving our driveway, one requiring me to pull off the road in my tractor the other we put up with the truck almost in the back of the car.
The application will have heavy vehicles using the road 13 hours a day 6 days a week. This will not be during daylight hours for part of the year. There will be increased risk exposure to other road users due to the increased Heavy vehicle movements which will increase further during wet weather and night operating hours. The TI & PAR used peak flows on a single days data, the impact is more significant on the minimum flow times. The report also notes at peak flows only 3.28% of the selected vehicle classification are identified in the data. If I am interpreting the data correctly, this will increase to approximately 13% at peak traffic flow times. What is the percentage at minimum flow times.
There is discussion of potential increased traffic from Petersons Quarry, but there is no mention of increased traffic on the Woodburn - Coraki road from other quarry's in the area.
A road levy of $1.08/tonne over the life of the project will provide the RVC with up to $7.56M, as this is revenue earned from use of a single transport route, will all the revenue be spent on the proposed route's maintenance?
I do not abject to the Pacific Highway upgrade nor the increased quarry capacity, I object to the material being moved on the Woodburn - Coraki Road in it's current condition due to the increased risk exposure of current road users and residents.