Voice of Byron regular, Rosie Lee, describes the poor planning, policing and parking which ended in a traffic accident along Cemetery Road, Byron Bay this week Jan 2017.
Rosie says, “Well it’s what I’ve been dreading but the inevitable finally happened. The only wonder is that it’s taken so long.
“I sat down to breakfast and heard screeching tyres, followed by the sound of smashing glass.
“Approvals for flats and units all up Cemetery road now means there are ALWAYS cars parked on the street, sometimes on both sides, so driving up it and rounding a blind corner with an intersection onto Lilli Pilli Drive you always just have to just hope nobody is coming the other way, or if they are that they are at least not driving a little too fast.
“There used to be a No Standing sign on our side of the road but someone smashed into it and knocked it down and it hasn’t been replaced.
“Common sense would tell you it is unwise to park there, that close to an intersection, especially when there are cars parked all up the street opposite you, turning a two-way road into a one-way road at best.
“BUT common sense is it short supply, especially in the planning department it seems.
“I felt sorry for the poor girls who came around the corner as they have done hundreds of times before, only to have to slam on their breaks because the person with no common sense parked just near the intersection and there was a car coming the other way, so they had no choice but to hit the breaks to avoid a head on.
“They slipped in the wet right into the Victorian holiday maker, whose car bounced out into the road making it even more impassable until they finally emerged from parts unknown, to find their car NOT as they had left it an hour earlier.
“So are the Days of our Lives in Byron. I just hope nobody ends up losing it on the corner and ends up in our bedroom.”