AN accident waiting to happen.
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That's what councillor Clive McCarthy calls the Mayfield Road intersection with O'Connell Road used by Mayfield Garden visitors - and he wants something done.
"This issue has been raised at council's Traffic Advisory Local Committee [TALC] meetings on several occasions and still nothing is being done," he said.
He said the TALC committee agreed the intersection needs an upgrade "due to the lack of safe sight distance, in particular for vehicles waiting to turn into Mayfield Road from O'Connell Road, as well as the lack of additional lanes for safer turning".
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Cr McCarthy said since the garden opened in 2008, there's been a nursery, cafe and function centre opened.
"Didn't any of these development applications address traffic movement to the garden?" he asked.
"They've had some major functions on-site with many people attending. These larger events are on top of their regular bookings for weddings, parties and the like."
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Oberon Council planning and development director Shane Wilson said there were not considered to be any traffic generating activity concerns when the garden opened in 2008.
"In December 2018, we received a development application from Mayfield for function and events to cater up to 1800 people," he said.
"This triggered a report to go to TALC and RMS [Roads and Maritime Services] for consideration.
"As part of the DA, it is required for Mayfield to engage a traffic engineer for a management plan for the intersection. We had a meeting last week to discuss a few issues at the intersection."
Mr Wilson said as this is an RMS road, not a council road, the TALC committee cannot make a recommendation to the development application, but can make a recommendation to the RMS, which will make a decision in regards to conditions.
Cr McCarthy said council has spent $1.4 million upgrading the Mayfield Road and "it should be up to Mayfield Garden to improve the intersection".