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We must thank everyone who has taken time to persuade Hobart Council to go ahead with the speed humps.

As you all know, Council finally made its decision to go ahead, but there is one last hurdle - the Department of Infrastructure (DIER) requires another round of public consultation.

To make is easier on everyone, we have drafted a collective submission on behalf of our community. Please have a look and let us know if you have any further additions or changes.

Here are the two relevant files:
speed hump submission
waterworks-crash-history

You can make any comments below or email Janine or Chris.

On Monday 14th, local residents Rob vincent, Chris Harries and myself attended a special meeting of the City Services Committee at the Town Hall. We each spoke for a few minutes to the alderman regarding our request for traffic calming in Waterworks Rd. Two residents from Ridgeway community and one Waterworks resident spoke against the proposal.

After some debate by the aldermen, the end result is:

- speed humps will be temporarily installed along the section of Waterworks Road from the reserve to Romilly Street for a six month trial period

- council will do a speed survey of the street prior to installation and at some stage afterwards to measure the effectiveness of the speed humps

- no plans were made to extend the installation of speed humps below Romilly street at this meeting, although these are still on the drawing board.

Only one alderman voted against the amended proposal. 

It seemed the aldermen were persuaded by the large response to their surveys and most importantly because there was such strong community support for traffic calming. 

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Ours is a winding road, often steep, with only one formed footpath for much of its length.

The parents and children of the Walking Bus travel down the southern side on this footpath, but of course the families involved are from both sides of the road and children and adults cross it to play or visit, too.

Adults and older children cycle, walk, walk their dogs and run here; wallabies and other native animals cross at night or early in the morning. All too often they don’t make it safely to the other side, as Waterworks Road attracts speedsters.

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