PROBLEM ROADS: Gympie readers have their say on speed limit changes

It was announced this week that the speed limit on Channon St has been lowered to 50km/h, and from 100km/h to 80km/h on Kin Kin Road between Tin Can Bay Road and Wolvi township.

The scene of a two car accident on Channon St and O'Connell St last year. FILE PHOTO

News of speed limit changes on one of Gympie’s busiest roads, as well as two other busy country roads, has perhaps unsurprisingly drawn a mixed reaction from readers.

It was announced this week that the speed limit on Channon St has been lowered to 50km/h, and from 100km/h to 80km/h on Kin Kin Road between Tin Can Bay Road and Wolvi township, and between Yellow Gully Road and Counter Road.

Will potholes ever not be a problem? Probably not … Picture: Supplied.

Between Counter Road and the start of the gravel section on Kin Kin Road, the limit will be reduced to 90km/h.

On Bauple-Woolooga Road, west of Gootchie, the 100km/h limit will be reduced to 80km/h between the Bruce Highway and Gootchie Road.

Gympie Times readers took to Facebook to have their say on the developments, or suggest other roads in need of attention:

Tina Bowman: “The road going to mount pleasant they treat it like a rally track coming up from centro.”

Amy Shelby Shaleigh: “People fly up Channon St and Horseshoe Bend it’s ridiculous.”

Annie Kennedy: “Rocks Rd Southside (should be) down to 60km/h.”

Don Graham: “Gympie Woolooga Rd is now 90ks. Get to Widgee and you‘re allowed to do 100 on single lane roads with worn shoulders? Tell me that is safe?”

Joe Laverty: “None, learn to drive to the existing rules.”

Cherryl Kirk: “Joe Laverty easier said than done, when others don’t and you have to think for them too … it’s a constant theses (sic) days.”

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And of course, the age-old issue of roads compromised by potholes just never seems to go away:

Christina Murphy: “They still haven’t addressed the huge series of pot holes on Vine road, why decrease Kin Kin Road?”

What are your thoughts on the new speed limits? Should other Gympie roads get the same treatment? What’s the most dangerous Gympie region road? Send your thoughts to [e-mail].

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