TW Bird, Lancefield
I would like to respond to Roger Barr’s recent column in the Lancefield Mercury dealing with motorists speeding in roadworks work sites.
If he is referring to the current work sites on Lancefield Road, south of Lancefield and Romsey, I would like to ask him what moral and legal grounds he has for fining motorists in a roadworks work site that is not compliant with the Road Management Act 2004, Code of Practice, Worksite Safety-Traffic Management.
From day one neither of these two work sites have ever been compliant with the above code of practice. The main non-compliant issue is the lack of required repeater speed limit signs. To this day these work sites are not compliant.
Maybe if Roger Barr’s true concerns are road safety he and his colleagues could spend some of their energy getting VicRoads and the road contractors to carry out their responsibilities and duty of care by establishing and maintaining work sites compliant with the Road Management Act 2004 Code of Practice, Worksite Safety-Traffic Management. Until then any fines imposed in these non-compliant work sites are just revenue raising.
