Community Action Plan

Local roads

Community driven actions

• Continue to fix, upgrade, grade and seal roads to improve road safety and aesthetics.

• Invest in improving rural roads, with consideration for harvest and seeding, and school bus runs.

• Advocate for Main Roads to upgrade South Coast Highway from Ravensthorpe to Esperance with more passing lanes.

• Improve Harbour Road with a new roundabout at the intersection with South Coast Hwy, an overpass at the intersection with Pink Lake, and line markings.

• Widen roads (i.e. Myrup Road)

• In addition to roads mentioned above, other specific roads to improve include Esperance-Coolgardie Highway, Wittenoom Hills Rd, Fisheries Rd, Cascade Rd, Cambell Rd, Springdale Rd, Mungy Beach Rd, Circle Valley Rd, Rolland Rd, and tourist loops.

• Improve access for mobility scooters (e.g. mountable kerbing or ramps to ECS, top end of Sheldon Rd, and repairs to kerbing on Brazier St).

• Improve the overall quality of workmanship to provide lasting repairs.

A sample of community voices

“Local roads will always be a priority as people and goods rely on roads to get work done.”

“Many kms of roads and hard to maintain.”

“A lot of the roads in the Shire are in poor condition, especially with potholes. I suspect a lot of these may be Main Roads' responsibility.”

“Maintenance on unsafe roads after harvest.”

“Too many potholes and damage from trucks and tree roots.”

“Bitumising or at the very least constant grading of bus routes.”

“More preventative grading and road repairs.”

“We can see some areas are finally being repaired, ie. Goldfields Rd (finally). However, the entire town is filled with dim lights and poor conditioned roads.”

“Corner of South Coast Hwy and Cascade Rd (on Cascade Rd) needs urgent repairdangerous.”

“White lines in roads be kept in good order.”

“Our local roads are not coping with the amount of traffic they are forever being patch. We desperately need more overtaking lane between Esperance and Ravensthorpe.”

“Build and repair just once instead of multiple attempts to get it right.”

“Stop spending money on resheeting roads that were done previously within the last year or so do it right the first time and stop wasting millions i.e Cascades Rd."