An additional two weeks’ consultation has been added to the Federal Government’s plan to cut default regional road speed limits to as low as 70 kilometres per hour, after the Infrastructure Department quietly extended the closing deadline by 14 days.
The morning after Regional Development Shadow Minister Dr Anne Webster called for an extension of time, and following Transport Shadow Minister Senator Bridget McKenzie writing to Minister King seeking the same, there has been an extension of time on the consultation website.
“Regional Australians need more than a sneaky shifting of the consultation dial, pretending nothing was amiss here,” Dr Webster said.
“The consultation now runs for the usual length of 42 days, not the abysmally short 28 days.”
Dr Webster urged transport operators, small businesses, farmers and councils to make submissions to the Government’s consultation by the new deadline of Monday 10 November about how their communities would be impacted by speed limit reductions on rural, regional and remote Australian roads.
To make a submission, go to https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/have-your-say/regulatory-impact-analysis-reduce-open-road-default-speed-limit
