extended construction hours will place additional pressure on residents already impacted by the as yet unregulated activities of MCQ should they win any of the supply contracts.
Daracon director David Mingay was found to be corrupt by ICAC and is therefore not a person who can be trusted to comply with existing regulations and true to form he is authorising the company to flout the existing restrictions. The impact on the roads, the businesses and the residents is unrelenting and adverse.

Lets hope Martins Creek Quarry doesn't win this contract to supply gravel and road base. It will be total carnage through the township of Paterson and surrounding areas. With extra early and late truck movements, compounding to all the other road and infrastructure problems that are going on already in the area.

I am writing this to you in reference to Technical Paper 3 - Noise and Vibration Assessment page 6
I object to this time period on the grounds that extended construction hours will place additional pressure on residents already impacted by the as yet unregulated activities of Martins Creek Quarry in Martins Creek,

Especially Martins Creek, Paterson, Bolwarra & Maitland areas should Daracon supply the Gravel.

This project whilst I'm sure necessary for the development of Newcastle, it will result in the same truck carnage of Paterson and surrounding suburbs. Daracon won the supply of Hexham and this destroyed our way of life. We will directly be impacted by the quarries illegal actions as this will show another case of them breaching the current supply quota. The main difference here would be even earlier operations and for a much longer period.

IF DARACON GET THE JOB, MAKE THEM TAKE IT BY RAIL CLOSER TO NEWCASTLE & THEN LOAD TRUCKS FROM THERE IE HEXHAM INTERCHANGE

Please do not permit the proposed extension to construction hours advocating a 6.00am start. Our lives are already plagued by early morning truck traffic to and from Daracon's Martins Creek Quarry.
For residents of Martins Creek, Paterson, Bolwarra and East Maitland this would see truck traffic from 4.30am onwards.

MC Quarry already operates with scant regard to the communities it neighbours and impacts upon. They have indicated a wish to dispatch trucks even earlier than currently from 5.30 am. Now we know why.

I refer to Page 6 on Technical Paper 3 - Noise and Vibration Assessment. I object to this proposal on the grounds that extended construction hours will place additional pressure on residents already impacted by the as yet unregulated activities of Martins Creek Quarry in Martins Creek, Mainly Paterson, Bolwarra & Martins Creek areas should they win any of the supply contracts.

This project is necessary for the development of Newcastle, it will result in the same truck destruction in our area of Paterson and surrounding suburbs like when Daracon won the supply of Hexham.

All that live here will be directly impacted by the quarries illegal actions as this will be another case of them breaching the Quarries current supply quota. The main difference here would be even earlier operations and for a much longer period.

PLEASE IF DARACON GET THE JOB, MAKE THEM TAKE IT BY RAIL CLOSER TO NEWCASTLE & THEN LOAD TRUCKS FROM THERE IE HEXHAM INTERCHANGE

MERRY XMAS

On behalf of the residents of Paterson and immediate surrounds who are already severely impacted by early morning truck movements to Martins Creek Quarry, we ask that the construction hours of this project ARE NOT EXTENDED beyond the standard 7.00am-6.00pm M-F and 8.00-1.00pm on Saturdays
The proposed 6.00 am start would potentially result in trucks travelling to Martins Creek Quarry significantly earlier than currently (5.45am through Paterson). MCQ currently appears to operate unregulated. Dispatching loaded trucks from 5.30am is already on their agenda.

I am writing this to you in reference to Page 6 on Technical Paper 3 - Noise and Vibration Assessment. I object to this time period on the grounds that extended construction hours will place additional pressure on residents already impacted by the as yet unregulated activities of Martins Creek Quarry in Martins Creek, Especially Paterson, Bolwarra & Maitland areas should they win any of the supply contracts.

This project whilst I'm sure necessary for the development of Newcastle will result in the same truck carnage in our area of Paterson and surrounding suburbs like when Daracon won the supply of Hexham. We will directly be impacted by the quarries illegal actions as this will show another case of them breaching the Quarries current supply quota. The main difference here would be even earlier operations and for a much longer period.

PLEASE IF DARACON GET THE JOB, MAKE THEM TAKE IT BY RAIL CLOSER TO NEWCASTLE & THEN LOAD TRUCKS FROM THERE IE HEXHAM INTERCHANGE

MERRY XMAS

Whilst not objecting to the proposal in concept, I do object to the proposed extended operational hours during the construction period with start times moved from 7.00am to 6.00am Mon-Fri. to 6.00am-7.00pm and 7.00 am-5.00pm Saturday.
This will place additional pressure on residents impacted by trucks travelling to the site early morning. In particular, I note Martins Creek Quarry has already applied to extend their operating hours, no doubt with this project in mind.
This will further increase the sleep disruption residents already experience with trucks moving through impacted communities from even earlier from 4.30am

Please ensure if this project is approved the proposed construction hours are kept to a 7.00 am start.

I am very concerned about the projects reduction of safety in crossing from east to west for pedestrians and bicycle riders.
To increase the number of road crossings is a safety reduction.
This submission is to request a tunnel or overhead crossing for pedestrians and bicycle riders as a matter of safety. It would also
reduce waiting time for drivers.

I have looked at the plan and note there is no underpass for the existing Jesmond park cycleway to Victory Parade or to Illoura Street.
This will force cyclists including lots of school children down to the main road crossing and have to negotiate dangerous crossings.
Children may not wait for the green crossing with disastrous results.
My wife and I have nearly been hit numerous times on pedestrian / cycle crossings by drivers that do not stop.
One occasion a car was undertaking the stopped cars on the far lane on the gutter at around 70 km/h and missed us by a few CM.
Another the driver just seemed to ignore the red light and came flying through it behind us just as we made it to the gutter.

There is also new cycle path that goes along Victory Parade into the brickworks park that would no longer link to the Jesmond park one.

Maybe RMS should have consulted this to see just how much this path is used and how much traffic will be slowed by repeated crossing activations.
http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#13/-208.32670/-32.92945/blue/both

They even have a tool that can be used by planners.
http://metro.strava.com/

Note: that data only shows the strava users and does not account for the much higher number of non strava users IE: lots families with small children use that path as well as quite a lot of elderly walkers.

Please consider making it safe for the large amount of cyclists and pedestrians I see passing through there every day.

As a local I welcome the change of the bypass as I might actually be able to get out of Steel Street on to Newcastle road in my car during peak times.
I don't want to have to wait in my car at the poorly designed intersection for pedestrians and cyclists pushing the 3 crossing buttons.

Looking at the design of the intersection it appears if someone exits the bypass on the wrong exit they can't get back onto it as all of the lanes from the offramps are left or right turn only they do not appear to allow you to get back onto the bypass.

Regards
Michael Probert