I am extremely unhappy about the proposed level of road vehicle movements. The local road infrastructure is not capable of supporting this level of movement without rapid deterioration. Please reconsider the level of road movement and instead move products by rail which already provides bulk grain and coal shipments on the line passing by the quarry's doorstep.

Dear Sir/Madam

I oppose the Martins Creek Qyarry Expansin for the following reasons.

1/ Decrease in quality of life and
2/ decrease in value of property
due to
a/Increase Truck numbers and hours of operation totally disrupting sleep.
b/roads at present are deteriorating because inadequate for current truck traffic--can't possibly cope with proosed increase with any degree of safety, or further deterioration.
c/ Traffic congestion inevitable--not organised to cope with such heavy vehicle traffic---disrupting rural and Village lifestyle.
3/ unacceptable destruction of natural habitat.


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Once again we, the residents of Bolwarra, Lorn, Martins Creek, Paterson and Largs are being subjected to intrusion, inconvenience, wreckless consideration to our homes and lives. Each resident of these areas are entitled to feel and live safely, rear our children safely in our selected homes. But this is being invaded, our rights to live in peace and safely stomped on, or should I say "thundered" over by trucks, more trucks. IS THIS FAIR, seriously would you tolerate it? NO!. We live across the road from a child care centre and watch on a daily basis the idiots that try to maneuver in and out, some illegally because of the already exceeded traffic limit expectation on Paterson Road. My son was rear ended, severely, our neighbour has been rear ended, near misses regularly, because THIS ROAD CANNOT TAKE ANYMORE TRAFFIC. DO YOU NEED THE DEATH? What does it take, STOP pushing this. If you must extract every single bit of rock from that Quarry (greed prevails), then take your trucks down a more convenient, appropriate road way, the one that was approved, Third River Crossing roadway, less residents, no day care centres, schools, shops, houses way back off the road. Common sense surely should prevail. I TOTALLY OBJECT TO THIS PROPOSAL. Our house is slipping off it's peers because of the vibrations, our heritage glass in the front shakes and rattles, some is already cracked. Two front rooms are cracked due to traffic vibrations, who fixes that? Daracon? The vehicle tyre refuse constantly settles on our house, let alone we breath it in no doubt. So much for opening and airing our heritage house out.

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Please see attached letter to oppose the martins creek quarry extensions

We live very close to the Martins Creek quarry and are affected by blasting at the quarry as well as the huge number of quarry trucks passing through Paterson and surrounding areas. We either stop in or drive through Paterson on a daily basis and are concerned that there will be an accident one day. The quarry trucks are frequently travelling in convoy and often at unsafe speeds. It can be difficult to cross the road to get to and from our car. The volume of traffic is loud, frightening and is affecting everyone living in the area.






and also stop to shop in the local stores, we are very concerned there will be a nasty accident involving one of the trucks. We see many instances of truck convoys

I Oppose The Expansion Of The Martins Creek Quarry.
I feel this way because I know the increase in trucks will be dangerous and detrimental to our little community.

I live on the narrow section of Tocal Road between Hilldale Drive and the Paterson Road intersection at the service station. Pedestrians walking along the footpath here are only 1.2m from traffic travelling at 60kph. I have been out with a tape measure - the footpath is 1.2m from the white line at the side of the road and the gutter is 800mm. No pedestrian is safe in this situation. It is quite terrifying as vehicles are aimed straight at pedestrians as they follow the curve of the road and the wind turbulence makes it hard to stand still - a child would easily lose his/her footing.

Currently children moving to and from the bus stop walk 1.2m away from trucks travelling at 60kph. This is frightening and dangerous.

The volume of traffic at present is such that it is not easy to cross the road during the day because vehicles approaching from the Paterson side do not slow down until they reach the speed checker which is well past the Hilldale Drive intersection. The current traffic travelling at 60kph makes turning in and out of driveways hazardous often as not.

I strongly object to this road being subject to increased truck traffic from the Martins Creek Quarry expansion. It was never designed to take high volumes of traffic and was never intended to be a trucking thoroughfare. It is not a safe road for pedestrians and homeowners now, and with increased truck volumes would be likely to become a black spot for accidents. To call them accidents is not correct, as to knowingly increase the traffic in view of the above is to deliberately court disaster.

Truck movements from the quarry were legally bound to be of limited number but have been increased beyond this over the years. Any further use of Tocal Road as a means of moving quarry products is contrary to safety standards for a road of this width and such close proximity to family homes.

I strongly object to increased truck movements along Tocal Road and believe the viable alternative of using the rail system should be a condition of any expansion of the quarry.

I ask that those making decisions about this matter accept that they have a responsibility for the safety of the community and should not approve this inappropriate road usage.