PARENTS are up in arms about a bus stop on a 100km/h stretch of the Nundle Rd past Nemingha.
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The current pick-up-point just outside the Oaklands estate leaves primary school kids standing on the side of the road, flanked by blind corners.
Oaklands parents handed a petition to Tamworth Regional Councillor Russell Webb in the hope of getting a stop relocated inside the estate.
Mother Rose Bensley puts her six-year-old daughter Poppy on the bus at 7.50 each morning, but said some parents now drive their children down the road to the Nemingha Public School for a safer stop.
“I wouldn’t send her to the bus stop by herself,” Ms Bensley said.
“There’s no designated area.”
Cr Webb said there are about 10 children who get on the bus from the Nundle Rd stop, but the Oaklands estate is set to grow in coming years.
The biggest sticking point for Ms Bensley was the fact there was no consideration for a bus stop in the planning phase of the development.
“It’s surprising, you have to jump through so many hoops to get developments through,” she said.
“You would have thought they would think of a bus stop.
“The type of developments that are here are designed for families with children.”
Cr Webb tabled the petition from concerned parents at Tuesday’s night’s council meeting and called for quick action.
“We don’t want to get six months down the track and if there was even a minor incident that could have been prevented, then we would not forgive ourselves,” he said. Cr Webb said the NSW Department of Transport would now be lobbied through council’s traffic committee who meet with local police and the Road and Maritime Service (RMS).