Mount Barker's Heysen Boulevard is supposed to be a vital transport corridor, but the 9-kilometre ring-road in the Adelaide Hills town looks more like a dotted line.
Developers are building parts of a ring route around the town, but only near their estates"It's a boulevard that goes nowhere," Mount Barker Mayor Ann Ferguson said.The reason for the boulevard's patchiness dates back to 2011, when the former Labor governmentThe controversial decision put developers in charge of building sections of road on the land they purchased.Mount Barker Mayor Ann Ferguson says motorists are cutting through the town since the ring route is unfinished.
She said the congestion would only worsen as Mount Barker's population grew. The town is expected to hit 60,000 by 2036. "Currently, the Labor Party is in power, and I am saying to the government 'you rezoned the district for large-scale population growth, you must invest for that growth'."Both the Mayor and Mr Cregan have called on the state government to seize control of Heysen Boulevard from developers.
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