Ten-minute trip to hospital 'took me three hours', Coolangatta hairdresser says

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Ten-minute trip to hospital 'took me three hours', Coolangatta hairdresser says
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Amanda Mccallum says driving her mum to hospital for a cancer appointment, a quick trip normally, has been blown out because of significant delays at checkpoints on the NSW border.

A Coolangatta hairdresser says a 10-minute trip to drive her mum to hospital for a cancer appointment ended up taking three hours because of significant delays at border checkpoints.A Gold Coast hairdresser says a 10-minute trip to hospital took three hours due to traffic delaysMayor Tom Tate says he would welcome anything that can keep traffic moving, including redrawing state boundaries

"Fifty per cent of my business is over that border. I'm a hairdresser so it makes it very hard," she said. "I don't know what the answer is, but I think that there are more people most definitely using that getting into Queensland now or coming into Queensland.""You've got to be very patient because it's a long wait," one driver waiting at the Griffith Street checkpoint in Coolangatta said.Find more local newsChoofas Smokehouse and Seafood owner Scott Littler says border delays are affecting his business.

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