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Correspondence Agenda CORRESPONDENCE FOR INFORMATION 1. 1578226 * 146 Ayr State Primary School Invitation - Mayor Lyn McLaughlin - Ayr State School's Year 6 School Leader Induction Ceremony - 21 February 2020 2. 1577350 * 2023 RAAF - Royal Australian Air Force - North Queensland Squadron Letter Request - Freedom of Entry to the Shire of Burdekin - 5 September 2020 3. 1576840 * 1029 Local Government Association of Queensland – LGAQ - Conferences 2019 LGAQ Annual Conference - Resolution 84 – Submission by Burdekin Shire Council 4. 1576872 * 925 Scripture Union Queensland Letter of Thankyou and Appreciation - Annual Donation to the Burdekin Combined Chaplaincy 5. 1577958 * 925 Hon Coralee O’Rourke MP – Minister for Communities Minister for Disability Services and Seniors Letter of Thankyou - Age-Friendly Regional Workshops - Age-Friendly Communities 6. 1577467 * 146 Office of the Governor – Government House Queensland Invitation - Celebrate International Women's Day 2020 - 6 March 2020 - Government House Paddington Document Set ID: 1577350 Version: 1, Version Date: 10/02/2020 05 February 2020 Cr Lyn McLaughlin Mayor Burdekin ShireCouncil PO Box 974 AYR QLD 4807 Email: [email protected] Dear Cr Mc Laughlin, 2019 LGAQ Annual Conference – Resolution 84 The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) held its successful 123rd Annual Conference in Cairns on 14 - 16 October 2019, with over 400 delegates attending from across the state. A total of 88 motions were presented at the 2019 Annual Conference and 85 were carried including Resolution 84 submitted by Burdekin Shire Council. Resolution 84: Review of Traffic Management Plan Requirements for Lower Volume Roads Enclosed is the formal response to this resolution from the Hon Mark Bailey, Minister for Transport and Main Roads. Please let me know if you wish for the LGAQ to take any further action on this matter. Yours sincerely, Sarah Buckler PSM GENERAL MANAGER - ADVOCACY c.c Mr Terry Brennan , Chief Executive Officer, Burdekin Shire Council Email: NB: All received responses to LGAQ Annual Conference resolutions can be found at: https://www.lgaq.asn.au/group/guest/motions- database?p_p_id=101_INSTANCE_8BOgroUS3ipA&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p _mode=view&p_p_col_id=column- 4&p_p_col_pos=2&p_p_col_count=3&p_r_p_564233524_tag=ac2019 Document Set ID: 1576840 Version: 1, Version Date: 05/02/2020 Document Set ID: 1576840 Version: 1, Version Date: 05/02/2020 Document Set ID: 1576840 Version: 1, Version Date: 05/02/2020 Document Set ID: 1576840 Version: 1, Version Date: 05/02/2020 Submitting council / organisation Burdekin Shire Council & Fraser Coast Regional Council Date of council / organisation resolution LGAQ Policy Executive district 23-07-2019 / 16.3 District 9 - Northern 24-07-2019 / ORD 10.4.3 District 3 - Wide-Bay Burnett Number and title 84. Review of Traffic Management Plan Requirements for Lower of motion Volume Roads Motion That the LGAQ lobby the State Government to: • change the current requirements in relation to the scope of Traffic Management Plans (TMP) required to be developed for roadworks on lower volume residential and rural roads; and • express concern at the proposed requirements if the Austroads Code of Practice for Temporary Traffic Management (CoPTTM) is adopted by DTMR as this will introduce further complexity and cost into the development of TMPs where little distinction is made between high volume multi lane roads and lower volume roads. Background Burdekin Shire Council The Burdekin Shire Council is concerned about the requirements associated with the preparation of traffic management plans (TMPs) under the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) issued by the Dept of Transport and Main Roads (DTMR). It believes the existing requirements are excessive for works on lower volume residential and rural roads which council is largely responsible for. In order to meet the current requirements a number of staff have had to become qualified Traffic Management Designers. The alternative would be to engage consultants to undertake this work for each project at significant expense. Most Burdekin Shire roads are categorised as lower volume residential and rural roads and do not require the same level of documentation and process as TMP’s for higher volume and more complex roads such as national highways, freeways or major urban streets. At present relatively simple TMP’s now take up to four hours to prepare and resourcing these tasks is becoming increasingly difficult and costly. Concern is also expressed at the requirement for an RPEQ to sign off on minor variations to standard plans where mandatory requirements are not able to be met in preparing traffic management plans or traffic guidance schemes. 219 Document Set ID: 1576840 Version: 1, Version Date: 05/02/2020 Whilst the current requirements are quite onerous, an issue of even greater concern for Council is the development by Austroads of the Code of Practice Temporary Traffic Management (CoPTTM). It is understood that this code will have national applicability and is proposed to be adopted by DTMR to replace the MUTCD. Mandatory requirements under this code will be even greater than currently apply and it does not distinguish between complex high volume roads and less complex lower volume roads, with a one size fits all approach. This will make the development of compliant TMPs much more time consuming and difficult. It will have implications for a number of councils that may not have the available inhouse resources to meet these new requirements. Burdekin Shire Council maintains its commitment to workplace and road user safety in the design of TMPs however believes that the proportionate application of CoPTTM requirements for low risk, low volume roads or streets will still deliver safe outcomes for Council and road users. Fraser Coast Regional Council The Queensland Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices – Part 3: Traffic Control for Works on Roads (MUTCD) Clause 4.5.3 currently allows for variations to optimal treatments by the completion of a site specific risk assessment in accordance with MUTCD Part 3 Clause 2.2.3 Consultants and qualified staff members in developing Traffic Management outcomes are faced with a broad range of risk decisions which often leads to conservative solutions. In this regard, designers are not prepared to take the risk to design logical traffic management solutions outside the confines of the MUTCD and accordingly, designers take an extreme approach to the development of Traffic Management Plans (TMP’s). In some cases, the extreme approach can be excessive and rigid particularly where works are being completed on lower traffic volume and low speed environment roads. Because of this extreme approach and the fact that the MUTCD does not include categories that could be used when developing TMP’s, there is an extra burden and cost being placed on ratepayers to implement highly conservative traffic control measures on minor projects. In some cases, the cost of traffic control can be significant compared to the cost of the infrastructure being delivered. Fraser Coast Regional Council currently spends between $3M and $3.5M on traffic management for its internal infrastructure projects. These costings exclude traffic management costs on projects completed for Council from external Contractors, so the final cost would be much higher than the figures quoted above. 220 Document Set ID: 1576840 Version: 1, Version Date: 05/02/2020 These extra costs for traffic control have the potential to prevent infrastructure projects proceeding in our region and in other smaller Local Government areas that have limited budgets. For this reason, Council is of the opinion that the MUTCD should be reviewed and amended to include different categories to ensure that relaxations are permitted and planned for when the traffic environment allows for these relaxations to occur. Additionally, the MUTCD requires that traffic controllers have breaks every two (2) hours. Council believes that the breaks should be every three (3) hours to align with workforce management protocols and industry expectations. This amendment would reduce the requirement for a third person to be hired to provide cover during the current two (2) hour breaks. Particularly when the project that is being completed at the time allows the road to be re-opened when construction works are stopped to take allocated breaks. What is the That the requirements for compliant TMP’s under the MUTCD and desired outcome proposed CoPTTM be proportionately applied to low risk, low sought? volume roads and streets. LGAQ comment A similar motion from Boulia Shire was carried at the 2016 Annual Conference. The motion sought amendments to the prequalification gating and assessment requirements as follows: Tier 1 – unrestricted Tier 2 – Restricted (<10,000 AADT) Tier 3 – Restricted (<1,000 AADT) – including relaxed prequalification and gating requirements. The response from the Hon Mark Bailey MP, the then Minister for Main Roads, Road Safety and Ports and Minister for Energy, Biofuels and Water Supply, dated 28 December 2016 noted that ”by providing guidance and support for local government regarding alternative options such as the use of site appropriate generic traffic management diagrams, we believe local government can cover off more than 90 per cent of their maintenance issues and address concerns regarding the potential increase in the cost of traffic management and the need to keep workers and road users safe”. Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) officers met with LGAQ’s Roads and Transport Advisory Group to discuss concerns regarding TMPs and the Austroads CoPTTM on 30 August 2019. As part of these discussions it was noted that most local government- controlled roads would be classified as Category 1 as defined by the 221 Document Set ID: 1576840 Version: 1, Version Date: 05/02/2020 Austroads Guide. These roads are defined by the following parameters: • Posted speed and AADT of: o any speed limit with less than 3,000 vehicles per day AADT – normally rural roads; or o a speed limit of less than 60 km/h and traffic volumes between 3,000 and 10,000 vehicles per day AADT – normally urban streets.
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