Trevallyn residents' traffic concerns raised with City of Launceston

City of Launceston Andrea Dawkins has heard their concerns, bringing forward a motion at the next Launceston council meeting on Thursday.

The motion asks the council to investigate the installation of "traffic calming measures" including speed reductions and speed humps.

It has also asked the council to investigate whether it will trial Trevallyn as Launceston's first 40km/h suburb.

Residents hope a speed reduction, along with other measures, will curb what they have described as a "rollercoaster" of cars speeding through what should be a quiet suburban street.

Resident Amanda Parer has lived in the area for 12 years and says the amount of traffic has increased in three or four years.

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"It should be a quiet suburb, but that's not the case," she said.

"The problem is there are so many blind corners and cars are travelling through here at speed, which is dangerous."

Ms Parer said while she didn't think anyone was speeding through the suburb, even drivers travelling at 50-kilometres-an-hour were putting residents at risk.

"The topography of the area means it acts a bit like a rollercoaster and we find cars are too concerned with getting down to the bottom to look out for pedestrians and other cars," she said.

Ms Parer said it was even too difficult to use her driveway at times, due to the blind corners, and often a family member had to come out and manually stop traffic.

"But sometimes we've seen the good people who have stopped for us get rear-ended by other cars coming up behind," she said.

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Trevor Barker has lived in the area for 15 years and said e would have seen at least 15 crashes during his time living there.

Mr Barker said one of the problems facing the area was that water tended to pool on the road, and drivers would come around a corner and aquaplane.

"We have had to assist many of these drivers, even before emergency services have arrived," he said.

While all the crashes were relatively minor, he said he feared one day a more significant incident would occur.

Neighbour Matt Shirley agreed.

"We have a long driveway, but it's gotten to the point that we can hear a crash and know exactly what it is," he said.

"Most often they have hit the fence [above our property] but we have a car port down the hill, and are worried one day there will be a major crash and they'll come down the fence and into our property."

"If they come through the fence, there's nothing stopping them from coming all the way down the hill, there's nothing to stop them."

Mr Barker said that adding more speed humps to the stretch of road on Gorge Road and Trevallyn Road would help slow down drivers.

Ms Dawkins said since she was elected traffic troubles at Trevallyn had been a constant problem, and she wanted to ensure the council investigated what it could do.

"I understand Trevallyn is not the only suburb with traffic troubles, but it's the one I live in, and the one that has had a steady stream of people wanting to talk to me about it," she said.

"We don't have all the answers, but what we'd like to see is the council, and those who might have studied this, look at the options."

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Another resident, and avid cyclist, Anna Povey, rides her bike twice a day along the narrow streets at Trevallyn.

As a confident cyclist, she could navigate the tricky parts of the road but feared for less confident cyclists.

"There are some really tricky parts, it's especially difficult on the blind corners, but I have a tactic to be a bit more aggressive and take my place on the road," she said.

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"It takes away the decision from the driver, but we often find that drivers are impatient and want to get around cyclists."

A council report, prepared for the agenda ahead of Thursday's council meeting reports "council officers do not recommend committing to implementing measures that have not been investigated".

"With regard to infrastructure upgrades suggested in the motion, installations of this nature will be challenging due to the inherent topography and road alignment and available widths," the report states.

The motion will be debated on Thursday.