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Moruya Bypass Poll – Which option do you prefer?

At the moment the orange path has been selected as the preferred option. But would like to hear your thoughts and preferred option below.

You can also leave a comment at the bottom of the page.

Use the below poll below to see the results of which option is preferred for the new Moruya bypass. All you have to do is select an option and click submit, nothing else.

If interested, here is a link to the Moruya bypassStrategic Corridor Options Report

Poll has ended

The poll has been switched off now as there was some very odd behaviour towards the yellow option (roughly 200 votes in a short period of time) which needs to be investigated more.

Other than that please view the results with a grain of salt but it does give some insights into preferred options and there is good commentary below too.

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59 thoughts on “Moruya Bypass Poll – Which option do you prefer?

  1. Proof I would need to see the proof. I like nether options, would prefer the by pass come off the Clyde above Neligan Bridge, behind Mogo, behind Moruya behind,Bodalla and Narooma. This would form a fire break and it could still divert the traffic away from the residential area and not be an eyesore in your face ever where you turned

    • Certainly is, and has the least impact on residents. It also requires less construction than building an elevated road across the floodplain.

    • Agree, however heavy vehicles stopping at the Moruya Industrial area, then continuing South will have to still go through Moruya. We want to get the heavy vehicles out of the Moruya main street.

    • Yes it is but at the river it is a diff where that is and a wide bridge crossing it would be more costly.

  2. The orange option makes most sense but the residents of Noads road will be impacted severely and I worry for there mental health. I have friends that live there and they are struggling with the uncertainty.

    • The Orange zone has many concerns, at the beginning of the north end, the bypass will destroy the habitat and colony of sugar gliders plus other protected ground dweller native. The build up of acid sulphate will poison some of the Plains itself and possible destroy our marine sanctuary. The mass loss of homes can be devastating for people in the zone,loss and grief can be devastating,

  3. I think purple will be better for business less cost will protect our beautiful out look along the river we need to protect our point of difference to attract tourists.Are we retaining our original bridge ? Where do we interact with bypass ,How does hospital interact with airport.Why do we need to impact so many homes and agricultural businesses so many unanswered questions

    • Yes I agree with you Geraldine, so many unanswered questions.

      Needs to go where there is the least impact to people, businesses and environment.

      Not happy with the way transport NSW have handled the whole process.

    • I agree the elevated bypasses are extremely noisy. Some people on the north coast had to sound proof their homes. I agree with Yvonne the project team were very arrogant towards myself. Our home and property is in and borders the Orange Zone

  4. Needs to link to highway and George Bass snd airport otherwise those living on the coast road (large amount of population and ambulance) will be disadvantaged and will have to go through Moruya to access the hospital.

  5. Definitely orange. Purple is too close to town. It makes sense to start it at the Shelley road industrial estate and it skirts nice around the town. Orange is the least impact to residents.

    • I agree yellow is the go. It really uses the the hills and land to its advantage, being in the earthmoving industry it will be the best and most environmentally friendly option as we won’t have to go along much of the farm land. Where as the orange option is great but will be cutting across and that farm land and will be taking it away from farmers, which is what this town is known for.

  6. RED OUT WEST which isn’t shown as an option unfortunately. Less people and homes impacted and we retain the beautiful scenery of our coastline. As only local people will be using the airport and North Head Drive is already being widened for the airport, I don’t believe a bypass for people travelling south/north has to have anything to do with the airport. Again a dedicated road from the highway to the new hospital could be built from a red out west bypass that again would not impact people and homes as well as provide a faster more dedicated route to the hospital.

  7. Purple makes the most sense. I’m still not convinced though. The further away the bypass is from town the more the local businesses will suffer. Surely upgrading the current roads around the town would help the congestion during the holidays. If locals want places to shop, eat and drink they have to deal with busy seasons and tourists coming to town. 5 extra minutes waiting to get in town or out isn’t life threatening.
    Not to mention all of the houses and properties that will be dramatically damaged if the Orange, Green or Yellow routes go ahead.

  8. The orange route is twice as far twice the cost destroys some of the best grazing land on the coast takes out at least 20 homes.it is too far from town.will have a serious affect on local businesses.I vote for purple

  9. Lets leave the aerial fire fighting planes enough room to pick up water along the river during the next bushfire emergency. The purple option does this best and keeps the town within sight of the bypassing traffic so it wont affect retail businesses as much as the orange one which is up to 2.5 kms away from town and impacts many more residential and rural properties. See through sound barriers can be used to manage noise like those at Shellharbour and Kiama.

  10. Think ahead. All but blue will be impacted by expanding development of both the Moruya CBD, expanded industrial lands to support employment opportunities and urban growth.

  11. The orange is best for future proofing. Yellow too far away from town to benefit businesses with passing traffic. Purple too close to town, which would make is noisier and more visible and restrict the towns growth to the south… the purple would come out still in the urban area, so in 10 years time it wouldn’t actually be bypassing the whole town anymore..defeats the purpose.. orange makes the best sense on balance, though I hope they look at ways to reduce property impacts down near Noads road

    • Asking travellers to back-track if they can see the town from the bypass is somewhat problematic. If decent signage can’t convince travellers to use the old route before getting on the bypass, then it’s probably likely they will keep going.

  12. Blue. All the options east of Moruya put a massive barrier between Moruya and the coast. We don’t want to be cut off from the coast. Passing tourist traffic usually turns towards the coast for a break, rarely away. Moruya could shrivel and die. The blue option makes a major firebreak to the west of the town and provides a great platform for firefighting units to assemble and deploy to defend the town.

  13. There’s no argument that a bypass is needed to relieve the issues related to high traffic volumes that will only grow in the years ahead; it will ease congestion and help to ensure the peaceful rural character of the town is preserved and potentially enhanced. The yellow route is the least disruptive to good farming and ecologically important land and would leave expanses of land for future urban development, perish the thought, but the bypass will be there for decades to come

  14. The purple route is the best option. Much less destruction of homes, farms, livelihoods. The highway is in town and people were happy to buy there. Sound and visual mitigation would be possible on that route. Better access to Hospital. Better for business – if town visible and close people more likely to call. Save our retail area. Vote purple.

    • The project manager said health NSW was happy not to have direct access to/from the bypass and he couldn’t say if there would be any on/off ramps over its whole length. I guess that would apply to all options.

  15. Yellow is the obvious choice. North of the river all on Crown land and far cheaper to build. South of the river mostly on Crown reserved road until it hits Congo Road. It then must widen Congo road East until it hits Noads Road (missing homes west of Congo road) then west of Noads until it hits the highway again. Noads road to be upgraded to facilitate Congo traffic to Moruya. Purple option too close to town, requires 4.6k elevated bridge. The Orange option needs 5.5k elevated bridge. Both will have a high impact on prime agricultural lands,both an eyesore and built on unstable acid sulphate soils with potential severe impacts on protected waterways.Also the most expensive options. Better to put the savings to build a better hospital!

  16. The purple option would affect the ability of fire bombers to operate on the river, which was pretty important a little while ago. The yellow option would require destruction of bushland.

  17. I live on the highway and feel purple will be the most appropriate. People will still see our little town and may choose to visit. It will give our fire fighters access to the river and allows emergency vehicles access to both.

  18. Yellow option on State owned crown land . This land was purchased years ago – if not for a town bypass and quarry extension, then what?
    Orange, purple and blue northern connections are close to the industrial area entrance and will experience congestion in the future.
    The orange & purples’ 5.5 klm elevated bridge may please the occasional road engineer but won’t delight too many other people’s idea of beauty as it snakes its way across the Mullenderee. Wollongong’s elevated concrete Sea Cliff Bridge sits defiantly in its rugged cliff ocean environment. Elevated concrete bridges aren’t as beautiful in a softer green rural setting.
    No detailed costs or whole of life costs are provided at this stage but my guesstimate is yellow will definitely be the lesser cost option.
    Earthworks involved in the yellow option will be less visually intrusive than the elevated roadway bridging the Mullenderee.
    The bypass is needed sooner rather than later and this will only happen if the cost can be minimised to make the benefit/cost ratio attractive.

    • I agree Ross. Unfortunately someone will always be affected adversely no matter which one the choose. Most cost effective would make sense as long as all guidelines are met. Sadly anyone around Noads rd will be the worse off for it.

    • Yes Ross,Totally agree with you and Keith Dance. You know what you are talking about and Keith is a local local who knows his stuff. I wonder if these engineers have idea of what they are talking about. If anybody thinks that any option will keep all heavy vehicles out of our main street,they are wrong. How about we try getting rid of those bloody traffic lights. NO right hand turns on to or off of the main street. Obviously emergency vehicles would be exempt. Locals should make use of the roundabout system we have. I know pedestrians would have to be considered but will people stop whinging about how busy it gets for a few weeks a year. You live in a tourist area. Get over it. You are lucky to live here and enjoy it all year round.

  19. Orange.
    Blue is to the West so will limit Moruya’s growth that way.
    Purple is too close to Moruya and will be swallowed up in development, or block development.
    Yellow cuts out the industrial area so heavy vehicles will still need to go through Moryua to travel South.
    Green would result in heavy traffic on George Bass Drive, which is not it’s design intention

  20. The Yellow route will minimize impact on the flood plane and leave a landing zone for the float planes including the air tractors that contributed much to the battle against the recent bush fires. It would require a lot less structure and possibly reduce the cost.

  21. When the bushfires were on the water bombers ( sometimes three, one after the other) would pick up their load by coming in to the water and taking off again by flying to the east over the existing bridge and taking off again. I wonder if anyone has thought what they could do if the second bridge is located too close to the existing one limiting their capacity to pick up water quickly.
    We sure needed those planes at the time and will surely need them again in the future.
    Also if the two bridges are too close together it would impact the seaplane business which is an attraction in its own right for the town.

  22. What Planners’ priorities should be, but aren’t:
    1. Identify chief assets and preserve them. What is the main attraction of Moruya? The beautiful river and the surrounding farmland. Visitors from the airport get a thrilling unspoilt view of a tranquil river reflecting the mountains in the background. Is that to be destroyed forever by a concrete monster stretching from one side to the other. What else does Moruya have? Not much.
    Keep the visual and noise impact to a minimum. The concrete structure should be as close to the ground as possible to accomplish this. To start the concrete monster from the highest point in the area, where the impact will be its greatest and spoil the view for the greatest area is criminal vandalism. – a monument to the amount of damage which concrete engineering can do.
    2. Identify what is already blighted, and keep new necessary infrastructure to the same area. Namely the sewage works. Moruya is not going to develop around the sewage works, so keep the bypass as close to that as possible before it crosses the river.
    On the south side of the river go through at the lowest point between the humps in South Head Road, where the ground rises gently to the scrubby bushland before re-joining the original highway. The humps would facilitate taking South Head Road over the bypass without going higher than the road already is.
    This would save money and save us from a disaster.

  23. PLEASE NOT THE GREEN ROUTE!!!!!!!!! It will completely destroy our WW2 RAAF heritage!! I agree with many that the Yellow option is the least intrusive!

  24. It should have been option D (not shown) or E (orange). Thousands of trees will be cut down now. Well I’m not having it.

    https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/405/817/554/

    I have started this petition because I am concerned that Transport NSW is not doing the right thing by the environment for the future Moruya bypass project.

    To cut a long story short, the government agency “Transport NSW” is going to bulldoze about 1.5km of Nature strip along Noad’s Drive.

    This includes literally hundreds of established trees either side of the road.

    Even Blind Freddy could see that this option is going to be FAR worse for the environment than the more direct options D and E via existing tarmac roads through the town. Please have a look via google street view at what is at stake!

    Here is the latest report by them, which includes some environmental information and more details about the proposed options. I invite you to read it. Like all government reports it is very bureaucratic; it seems they are doing nothing but paying lip service to the environment.

    The option they have selected, option G, the orange option, they have rated as being “number 2” in terms of “sustainability”. What concerns me is that they have lumped in a load of human-centric selection criteria that have nothing whatsoever to do with natural biodiversity management!

    See pages 14 to 16 of the report where they have included “access to shops along the main street”, “economic prosperity” and “growth in employment” in with “sustainability” of all things.

    They did not do a comparison for example with the amount of trees to be cut down among all of the options. if they had, the choices would have been more obvious.

    For some reason, option D did not make the shortlist. Why not? Overall, option E [the purple option] would have been a more logical choice with far less impact to the environment…

    I don’t know who put together the report but clearly they have never even set foot along Noad’s Drive. If they had, the outcome might have been very different. It’s like these decisions are made at people’s desks rather than on the ground.

    Tourists like to come to this area precisely because it is not overdeveloped.
    I don’t think it is best for the Eurobodalla region at all. Far from it.

    Sincerely,
    Dr. Leslie Dean Brown (Mat Sci)

  25. Sydney has an increasing number of tunnels, admittedly through Sydney sandstone, not granite. Has a tunnel option been considered? Is it a feasible option? It would eliminate most of the objections mentioned, as each of them has valid pros & cons.

  26. The yellow option? why does it not follow the orange option near mountain view road, and why does it vear North over the river instead of coming close to Malabar creek which is a straight line . yellow option will not increase flood issues within Moruya,and will not sacrifice prime agricultural land . the orange option would require approximately a million tonnes of either fill or concrete where would we get that from ,thinking

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