NSW traffic and highway patrol officers will “saturate” the Hume Highway, in a high-visibility road safety policing blitz next week.
Part of Operation Furious, police say the four-day operation, will run from Tuesday, March 5, until Friday, March 8 and will see traffic and highway patrol officers deployed to the 840km stretch of the Hume Highway from Summer Hill in Sydney to Albury on the Victorian border.
Victoria Police will continue the operation across the border, as part of Operation Hamilton.
Operation Furious is targeting speeding and dangerous driving offences, with mobile and stationary speed enforcement to reduce serious injury and fatal crashes on the Hume Highway.
A/Supt Greg Donaldson says: “Over the last 10 years, 81 lives have been lost from 76 crashes along the Hume Highway between Sydney and Albury.
“Overwhelmingly, these crashes have been a result of driver behaviour, in the form of speeding, alcohol or drugs, fatigue or other poor driving choice. These lives could have been saved if drivers took greater responsibility when getting behind the wheel”
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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