The Orange Health Council, which recognises the hospital encounters a lot of traffic every day, also recognises the futility of Forest Road being 60km/h.  

Your paper indicated support for the speed reduction with Mr McGuire, general manager, Wangarang Industries, citing concerns of bus and other vehicles transporting employees to and from work.  

Mr McGuire also recognised the danger to the hundreds of children using Jack Brabham Park.  

Due to car sharing by mine employees restricting some of the parking along this sporting field, parents and other users are forced to park on the opposite side with children having to cross the road.

Entrances to TAFE and the Bloomfield complexes are also in the referred roadway.

Council’s solution is to erect three sets of traffic lights over a distance of one-and-a-half kilometres.  

This proves that council must recognise the danger along this stretch of road. One can easily imagine that some drivers will accept the challenge to reach the 60km/h between these lights.  

Of course, council has not placed a time scale to complete these lights and, in the meantime, let us hope that accidents and injuries do not occur.  The only saving grace is that the hospital is not far away.

Chris Visman,

Orange