West Tamar Corridor Strategy - Launceston to Beauty Point
We are committed to investing in upgrades on the West Tamar Highway to improve safety, road user experience, and to meet the future transport demands for this growing region.
This strategy will identify and prioritise projects along the entire length of the West Tamar Highway from Launceston to Beauty Point to improve corridor performance and provide for future growth in the region.
About the project
The West Tamar Highway Corridor Strategy – Launceston to Beauty Point project aims to provide a whole of corridor integrated plan that considers improvements to safety, road user experience, and meet the future transport demands for this growing region.
The key objectives are to identify and prioritise:
- road safety improvements for all road users
- opportunities for reducing congestion and improved travel times
- efficiency and network reliability improvements.
Feedback from the community consultation will help inform the investigations and define possible future of road improvement projects. The study team will develop a prioritised list of projects to improve safety, provide a more consistent traffic environment and improve transport flow.
Community consultation
Consultation closed on Monday, 24 October 2022.
We asked the community to help us identify which areas for improvement along the entire West Tamar Highway between Launceston and Beauty Point, with a focus on the northern section between Legana and Beauty Point.
Your views and feedback will help inform our investigations and define future projects.
You can view the feedback we received on our online interactive map.
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Location
Click on the image below to view the West Tamar Highway, from Launceston to Beauty Point location map in full size.
Background
The West Tamar Highway is an important road connecting community, industry and visitors to the West Tamar region and delivering produce from the region to Launceston and the rest of the state.
We recently completed a road corridor study for the southern section of highway between the Launceston CBD and McEwans Road, north of Legana. You can find out more about this study here: West Tamar Highway Corridor Improvement Plan.
We are now extending our corridor planning to the entire West Tamar Highway to incorporate the northern section from Legana to Beauty Point.
We are asking for your feedback to help us identify areas of the highway which require our attention. Your feedback will be used to develop the West Tamar Highway Corridor Strategy and will help inform our investigations and prioritise future projects
What is a corridor strategy?
We have been progressively preparing corridor strategies for State roads across Tasmania to create consistency in how the State Road Network is planned and managed.
Corridor strategies make planning and investment decisions transparent to the community, councils and other key stakeholders. By reviewing a variety of issues, a corridor study identifies:
- ways to improve and encourage better transport and economic opportunities
- current and future challenges in meeting region-specific objectives
- key transport demands likely to be placed on the corridor over the next 30 years
- high, medium and low priorities and actions to improve the corridor.
Accessibility
If you would like to find out more information and you have accessibility requirements, please contact the project engagement consultant on the details below.
You can find out more about Transport Services' commitment to accessibility on our website here: https://www.transport.tas.gov.au/accessibility
Contact
For further information on this project, please contact our Stakeholder and Community Engagement Consultant, Campbell Walker on 03 6323 1935 or email WestTamarCorridorStrategy@stategrowth.tas.gov.au