Shoalhaven Traffic Committee
Meeting Date: Tuesday,
10 September, 2019
Location: E-meeting
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Agenda
1. Apologies
2. Confirmation of Minutes
· Shoalhaven
Traffic Committee - 13 August 2019........................................................ 1
3. Business Arising from Previous Minutes
4. Reports of the Convenor
TC19.44...... Recommendations from Previous Meeting.................................................... 3
TC19.45...... Traffic Calming - River Road, Shoalhaven Heads......................................... 4
TC19.46...... Disabled Access Parking Space – Ulladulla
Leisure Centre Carpark – Warden Street Ulladulla (PN 3557)........................................................................................ 9
5. General Business
Note: The next meeting will be
held on Tuesday 8 October 2019.
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Shoalhaven
Traffic Committee – Tuesday 10 September 2019
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TC19.45 Traffic
Calming - River Road, Shoalhaven Heads
HPERM Ref: D19/140883
Convenor: Tom
Dimec
Attachments: 1. River
Road Shoalhaven Heads Rubber Speed Humps Concept Plan ⇩
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Recommendation
That
the Chief Executive Officer (Director Assets and Works) be advised that the
Shoalhaven Traffic Committee support the installation of a low-cost rubber
speed hump in River Road, Shoalhaven Heads, between Mathews St and Renown Ave
as an interim solution.
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Details
River Road, Shoalhaven Heads is
a local road within Shoalhaven Heads with residential properties and the Heads
Hotel on the northern side, and the Shoalhaven River on the southern side.
The area in question is adjacent
to the Heads Hotel located between Mathews Street and Renown Avenue. See
Attachment 1.
Council has received ongoing
community requests from the Heads Hotel for pedestrian and traffic calming
facilities, and more recently the Shoalhaven Heads Community Forum (CCB) is now
also requesting urgent consideration of traffic calming facilities in River
Road, adjacent to the Heads Hotel.
The CCB has advised that the
section of River Road adjacent to the Hotel is an area where people congregate
and walk across the road to view the River. The CCB has also advised that there
is a high volume of traffic which tends to slow to view the closed entrance,
which causes conflict with other road users. They have advised that traffic
calming is needed and that the speed limit in this area should be slowed to
lower than 40kph.
Traffic tube counters were
installed in River Road, 50m west of Renown Avenue (in the vicinity of the
areas of concern to the community), in 2011 and 2017. The results of the tube
counts are:
2 December 2011 – 8
December 2011
Average Daily Traffic 576 vehicles/day
Busiest Day 820
vehicles/day (Sat 3/12)
V85th speed 47.9
km/h
8 May 2017 – 15 May
2017
Average Daily Traffic 511 vehicles/day
Busiest Day 621
vehicles/day (Sat 15/5)
V85th speed 50.8
km/h
The above tube count results are
typical for local 50kph roads, and the results alone do not suggest a traffic
or speeding problem in River Road that needs to be addressed with engineering
measures at this point in time.
In addition to the traffic and speed data collected in River
Road, Council had also arranged a pedestrian and traffic count along River Road
from Mathews Street to Renown Avenue on Sunday 18 December 2016 (the day and
time was suggested by the Heads Hotel to capture a typical busy period) to
gauge the current traffic and pedestrian crossing demand in the location.
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VEHICLES
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E/T
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W/T
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TIME
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L
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H
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B
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L
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H
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B
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TOTAL
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1030 - 1045
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16
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0
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0
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9
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0
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0
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25
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1045 - 1100
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8
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0
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0
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8
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0
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0
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16
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1100 - 1115
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15
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0
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0
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11
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0
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0
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26
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1115 - 1130
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8
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1
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0
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8
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0
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0
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17
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1130 - 1145
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6
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0
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0
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3
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0
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0
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9
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1145 - 1200
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10
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0
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0
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11
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0
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0
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21
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1200 - 1215
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16
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0
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0
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8
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0
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0
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24
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1215 - 1230
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12
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0
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0
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11
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0
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0
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23
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1230 - 1245
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13
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1
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0
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11
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0
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0
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25
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1245 - 1300
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9
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2
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0
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11
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0
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0
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22
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1300 - 1315
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14
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0
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0
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11
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0
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0
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25
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1315 - 1330
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7
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0
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0
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7
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0
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0
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14
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1330 - 1345
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5
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0
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0
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12
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1
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0
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18
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1345 - 1400
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7
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0
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0
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4
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0
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0
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11
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1400 - 1415
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12
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0
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0
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9
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0
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0
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21
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1415 - 1430
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7
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0
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0
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9
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0
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0
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16
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1430 - 1445
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6
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0
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0
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7
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0
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0
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13
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1445 - 1500
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13
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0
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0
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11
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0
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0
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24
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1500 - 1515
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5
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0
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0
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7
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0
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0
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12
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1515 - 1530
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6
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0
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0
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7
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0
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0
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13
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TOTAL
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195
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4
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0
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175
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1
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0
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375
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PEDESTRIANS
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ZONE 1 (east)
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ZONE 2 (hotel)
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ZONE 3 (west)
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TIME
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A
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C
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E
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TOTAL
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A
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C
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E
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TOTAL
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A
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C
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E
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TOTAL
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1030 - 1045
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0
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0
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0
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0
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2
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0
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0
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2
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1045 - 1100
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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0
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1
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1
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0
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0
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1
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1100 - 1115
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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0
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1
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1
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0
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0
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1
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1115 - 1130
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1
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0
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0
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1
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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0
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1
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1130 - 1145
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0
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0
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0
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0
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3
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0
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0
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3
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1
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0
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0
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1
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1145 - 1200
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1
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0
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0
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1
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5
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6
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0
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11
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1
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0
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0
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1
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1200 - 1215
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2
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1
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0
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3
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9
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0
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0
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9
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1215 - 1230
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1230 - 1245
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1245 - 1300
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0
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0
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0
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0
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2
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0
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0
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2
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1300 - 1315
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0
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0
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0
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0
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7
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2
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0
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9
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1315 - 1330
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0
|
0
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0
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0
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
2
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0
|
0
|
0
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0
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1330 - 1345
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0
|
0
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0
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0
|
1
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0
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0
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1
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3
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0
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0
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3
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1345 - 1400
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6
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0
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0
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6
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0
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0
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0
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0
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6
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0
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0
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6
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1400 - 1415
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0
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0
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0
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0
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6
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2
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0
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8
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1415 - 1430
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0
|
0
|
0
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0
|
3
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0
|
0
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3
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0
|
0
|
0
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0
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1430 - 1445
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1445 - 1500
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1
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0
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0
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1
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4
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0
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0
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4
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1500 - 1515
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2
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2
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0
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4
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4
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0
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0
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4
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1515 - 1530
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0
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0
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0
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0
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4
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0
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0
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4
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0
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0
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0
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0
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TOTAL
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13
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3
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0
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16
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54
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10
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0
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64
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14
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0
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0
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14
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Legend:
L = Light Vehicles
H = Heavy Vehicles
B = Buses
A = Adult Pedestrians
C = Children Pedestrians
E = Elderly & Mobility Impaired Pedestrians
Warrants for pedestrian
facilities (i.e. pedestrian crossing or pedestrian threshold) are included
within the AUSTROADS guidelines, specifically:
· Traffic
volumes (V) need to be greater than 500 vehicles per hour
· Pedestrian
volumes (P) need to be greater than 30 per hour
· The
“Normal warrant” (P x V) needs to be greater than 60,000
· The
“Special warrant” (a lower warrant for consideration of vulnerable
users) P x V needs to be greater than 45,000
· These
conditions need to be prevalent for 4 separate hours of any one day.
From the recorded data on River
Road Shoalhaven Heads, and taken from the busiest pedestrian location (outside
the Heads Hotel), the following can be summarised:
· The
busiest pedestrian hour was 23 (76% of the required warrant) but other hours
were much less
· The
corresponding traffic hour was 71 vehicles (only 14% of the required warrant)
· The
value of PV is 1633 (only 2.7% of the normal warrant, or only 3.6% of the
special warrant) i.e. significantly lower than the recommended warrant.
These calculations indicate the low
priority of the location, and it is noted that there are numerous other
locations city wide that have much greater values of PV, including around town
centres, schools, and retirement/aged care facilities.
Council at its meeting of 18
December 2018 resolved (MIN18.1002):
That Council consults with the local residents in regard
to the possibility of constructing a ‘low cost’ rubber speed hump
in River Road (between Mathews St and Renown Ave adjacent to the Heads Hotel).
Shoalhaven Heads, in response to the request from the Shoalhaven Heads
Community Consultative Body.
Following this Council
resolution (MIN 18.1002) Council staff wrote to the 5 property owners between
Renown Ave and Mathews St, and the Shoalhaven Heads Community Forum, on 7
January 2019, requesting feedback on a possible low-cost rubber speed hump to
be installed on River Rd, adjacent to the Heads Hotel, pursuant to
Council’s resolution.
Council received the following 3
submissions in response to the proposal (summarised):
Response 1 – Notes
concerns with potential noise generated from vehicles traversing the raised
speed hump, in particular with larger delivery vehicles, and cars with boat
trailers. This response offered an alternative solution of a road narrowing
with a 40km/h speed zone and a marked pedestrian crossing.
Response 2 – Agreed
that River Rd is dangerous for pedestrians, but do not support a rubber speed
hump due to associated noise impacts by car and boat trailers and trucks. This
response also offered an alternative solution of a road narrowing with a 40km/h
speed zone and marked pedestrian crossing.
Response 3 –
Suggests Council have a wholistic plan for speed control and pedestrian access.
This response suggests speed humps be placed at the intersections of Mathews St
and Renown Ave with a 20km/h speed zone in between, with a pedestrian crossing
in front of the Hotel. This response suggests that Council consider the
commercial and safety aspects of the suggested interim measure.
The Shoalhaven Heads Community
Forum did not respond to the consultation letter; however, they proposed the
short-term solution.
The request for a pedestrian crossing
is acknowledged. Surveys identify that guideline warrants are currently not met
for the installation of a pedestrian crossing. Constructing a pedestrian
crossing without the warrant being met can undermine the importance of and
expectations at pedestrian crossings.
Incorporating a pedestrian
crossing into a raised threshold device has been included into the broader
foreshore masterplan (not detailed design or funded). A raised threshold
incorporating a pedestrian crossing:
- reduces
noise impacts to within acceptable limits
- achieves
the desired speed reduction where required (out the front of the Hotel) and
- enhances
the chances of a successful grant funding outcome and approval through the
Shoalhaven Traffic Committee.
On the 11th August 2019, Council
received a submission from the Shoalhaven Heads Forum requesting an
investigation into lowering the speed limit along River Road to 40km/h. Council
staff passed on these concerns to Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) for their
assessment. On the 2nd September 2019, RMS had passed its findings on to
Council and the Shoalhaven Heads Forum, advising that the existing 50km/h speed
zone was found to be in accordance with NSW Speed Zoning Guidelines and would
not be reduced. In light of this assessment, Council considers the installation
of rubber speed humps to be a viable option to address the concerns of the
community.
