Petition urges council to fix ‘scary’ main road

RESIDENTS living along a “scary” road north of Toowoomba have called on the council to fix it before someone is killed.

Barbara Scott, who has lived on Costello Rd in Cabarlah for more than a decade, said the 750m stretch of road has witnessed three near accidents in the past year because there is no speed or stop signage.

Costello Rd is classed by the Toowoomba Regional Council as rural residential, meaning its speed limit is 80km because it turns off the New England Hwy.

Mrs Scott said the use of the road has dramatically increased in recent years thanks to the introduction of a housing estate and other new developments from the neighbouring Lockyer Valley Regional Council.

“The council says it’s not a suburban road, therefore they don’t apply the 60km zone,” she said.

“The traffic has probably tripled in the past couple of years.”

The road is regularly used by pedestrians, especially school children walking it to take the bus, but has no designated footpath on either side. Mrs Scott’s petition, featuring 21 signatures, was tabled by the council on Tuesday.

“We’ve got no footpaths, the kids have to walk along

❝Somebody is going to get killed and I don’t want that to happen.

— Barbara Scott

that street to catch buses,” she said.

“We want a stop sign on Oakland Rd onto Costello Rd (at the other end), and a 60km sign at each end of Costello.

“It’s scary – somebody is going to get killed and I don’t want that to happen.”

Mrs Scott said police officers actually refunded tickets after incorrectly booking people for speeding, such was the confusion around the road.