This is another key point of difference in the Development Application submitted to Council.

• A 40% reduction in production output.

• 31% reduction in traffic numbers per day. 

• Less hours of operation – 6 days per week to 5.5 days per week; 52 weeks per year v 50 weeks per year.

• Increased background traffic generated by significant population growth in the intervening 8 years.

Comparison of Daily Truck Volumes 2014 vs 2024 – Daily Basis 

A key point regarding traffic is that this project, if successful, will not commence for another 13 years.   

The roads you are driving on now, and the neighborhoods you live in are going to look vastly different in 13 years' time. This application has been submitted well in advance of the closure of West Burleigh Quarry on one side of the Pacific Motorway to the proposed commencement of Reedy Creek Quarry on the other.  

The reason Boral has lodged this application 13 years before it is required is to give us time. Time to work closely with Gold Coast City Council and the Department of Transport and Main Roads to minimise impacts to all traffic users, improve current connector roads and ensure Reedy Creek is future proofed with a considered traffic plan. Importantly a local quarry is needed to keep construction costs down so the city can continue to thrive.  

An independent Traffic Assessment was conducted at the two sites being simultaneously developed. 

West Burleigh Quarry

It is not proposed to amend the access arrangements of the West Burleigh site as they operate adequately. 

At West Burleigh a Pavement Impact Assessment for this project has been performed, it determined that the proposed project indicates a negligible change to the tonnage being moved on the road network when compared to its existing use.   

Reedy Creek Key Resource Area

The proposed Reedy Creek Key Resource Area  Project will service the existing West Burleigh quarry with road transport of overburden and rock material to assist with the rehabilitation of the existing quarry.  

The transportation of materials using road trucks travelling between the quarries and in operational phases sending product to customers will be via Old Coach Road, north of the quarry access point. This is an identified haulage route for the Key Resource Area.  

The site is located close to both Tallebudgera Creek Road and Tallebudgera Connection Road, however, due to the gazetted Key Resource Area Transport Route no heavy vehicle traffic associated with either project is expected to regularly use these road sections. 

Approximately 200,000 tonnes of material per year (a mix of both stone and overburden) will be transported to West Burleigh from the Reedy Creek Key Resource Area Project, leaving 1,000,000 tonnes per year to be distributed to customers.  

The net increase in development phase peak hour vehicle trips above background traffic ranges from 73 peak hour vehicles trips in the year 2032, up to a maximum of 100 peak hour vehicle trips from the year 2036.  The assessment found that by the year 2040, development trip generation will step down in peak hour vehicle trips to 52 peak hour vehicle trips. 

The road safety assessment concluded that the proposed development is acceptable from a road safety assessment perspective and the proposed road upgrades will result in a safer more efficient road network. 

Results also concluded that the impact of development traffic causes at most a 2.7% increase to network delay, even when testing the brief peak period of development, which is comfortably below the 5.0% threshold at which mitigation works may typically be required. 

An independent Pavement Impact Assessment was also performed for this joint project which assessed the impact of the development on State-Controlled Road sections of the Burleigh Connection Road, Southport Burleigh Road and the Pacific Motorway. The assessment found that the impact is negligible.