NSW suburb of Jerrabomberra is experiencing growing pains
Just over the ACT border, residents in the growing New South Wales suburb of south Jerrabomberra, known as Tralee are experiencing some growing pains.
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00:00 This border suburb is still coming together, but its first few inhabitants are already facing a problem.
00:07 1500 residents, two cars per household, doing 8km round trips a day, that kind of stuff, it makes it a significant time factor.
00:17 There's no direct access road between South Jera and the ACT, which means residents have to dogleg their way through Jera Bombera's already busy roads and down onto the Monaro Highway to commute into Canberra.
00:28 Hitting that road at about the 9 o'clock mark, it is very, very congested.
00:33 That's not only frustrating for residents, it's bad for the planet too.
00:37 As far as the CO2 emissions, it gets significant with all the cars coming out of Jera Bombera and Tra Lee.
00:44 There are early stage plans for a more direct access road, but they are somewhat complicated and far off.
00:50 There's some complexities involved in getting us to that point and that involves four governments.
00:55 Unfortunately those planning processes aren't quick, I can't see anything happening opened and ready to go in the next two years.
01:01 South Jera residents want the ACT government to step up and add an access road to the Monaro Highway upgrades already underway.
01:07 We've made it very clear that it would require a significant contribution from both the NSW government, the Commonwealth government and the developer.
01:16 An interim fix through the suburb of Hume is also looking unlikely.
01:20 We've been very clear that we think it's unacceptable to have ad hoc road connections into Hume because that would be unsafe.
01:27 For residents then, the waiting game continues.
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