The extraction roads they are building around Bellingen (for the last year) could be sourcing the road making materials from the NSW Hunter region which is also a koala habitat. The forests there and here are covered in dust and residents relying on water caught off their roofs are forced to drink polluted water.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-25/hunter-region-quarry-proposals-spark-environmental-concerns/102730900
#koalas #logging #quarry #StopLogging #NativeForest #BellingenLogging #roads #traffic #dust #pollution #water #Bellingen #WaterTanks #RosesRd #GlenifferRoad #SaveTuckersNob

Logging Tucker's Nob
Let's do what we can
to save what we can

#Bellingen #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #GlenifferRd #RosesRd #biodiversity#GKNP

Bellingen - Tuckers Nob proposed logging/ clear felling Information Meeting

To the community of Tuckers Nob State Forest and any residents concerned by proposed Industrial Logging of Compartments 26/27 you are invited to a meeting by Friends of Tuckers Nob at

Gleniffer Hall
Thursday 17 of August at 6 pm

#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #catchment #RosesRd #GlenifferRd #trucks #traffic #noise #dust #Gleniffer #meeting #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #woodchips #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala

On the Highway to Climate Hell
The world's infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists.
“We have entire cities and transportation hubs that were all built for climate that no longer exists...unprepared for the climate risks we face today."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/08/11/climate-change-critical-infrastructure-heat-flood-energy-transportation-housing/

Recent road 'upgrades' in #Bellingen had logging and tourist supply chains in mind. All roads were extended with a lot of deforestation, heavy machinery using fossil fuels and cement. A climate and biodiversity disaster. Non provide for an infrastructure walking, cycling or e-mobility.

#Bellingen #roads #GlenifferRoad #NorthBankRoad #RosesRd #FossilFuel #logging #infrastructure #climate

How is Bellingen's "Road Renewal Program" going?
The road reconstruction of Gleniffer Road and diversion (Roses Road) is supposed to be completed by July 2023.

A preview at what once was a scenic forest road has now the charm of a highway.
Apart from the logging scars along it, the road is widened and reveals steep bare gullies where the biodiverse flora and fauna has been eliminated.

The widened shoulders of the 'highway' are mostly lined with prefabricated concrete gutters and culverts. The most fertile layer of the earth is sealed with a thick layer of cement. A rock-hard second skin entombs the living, fertile soil and brings great convenience to fossil fuel enthusiasts on their 'drive'. The road shoulder used to be soft with terrestrial orchids growing on the edges. Now it's given the hard shoulder to channel runoff and pollution down into the bush and the creeks as a fast runoff. It's called taming nature.

Concrete is considered the most destructive material on Earth, it is one of the main producers of carbon dioxide. “If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world with up to 2.8bn tonnes, surpassed only by China and the US.”
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth

The channeled cement gutter flow of these hydraulic stormwater structures has negative impacts on stream habitats and biota. Migrating animals find the widened road with slick cement hard to cross. The water quality and habitat become fragmented and degraded.

Soon the speeding vehicles will crack the cement blocks (As can be seen at any NSW roundabout) and they will crumble as rubbish into the bush.

The project doesn't seem to add to Australia's ‘fair share’ to contain global heating or refraining from engaging in extinction.

#Bellingen #Roads #subdivisions #logging #GlenifferRd #RosesRd #RoadConstruction #Soil #Erosion #Runoff #Flooding #Cement #Cars #FossilFuel #ClimateEmergency #Energy

A SUV (armoured vehicle) was unwilling to stop at the only pedestrian crossing today - a near fatal 'accident'.
Cavalcades of B-double trucks shooting through Bellingen #HydeStreet. A diesel generator pumping #FossiFuel to power the only traffic lights in #Bellingen. A forest of signs is ignored by all. Speeding of trucks and cars is not monitored on #RosesRd. It's the #WildWest... Roads are there to get 'stuff' out and smash a few more suburbs in.

Slow down at pedestrian crossings
https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/roads-safety-and-rules/stopping-giving-way-turning/pedestrian-crossings
#Roads #HydeStreet #Hyde #Traffic #Pedestrians reject #CarDependency #VillageHell #RoadAccidents
Image: There goes Bello #Biodiversity flying by on a truck on Hyde

Urban traffic noise causes song learning deficits in #birds
“#Traffic #noise leads to inaccuracies and delays in the development of song learning in young birds. They also suffer from a suppressed immune system, which is an indicator of chronic stress. A new study by researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and colleagues shows that young zebra finches, just like children, are particularly vulnerable to the effects of noise because of its potential to interfere with learning at a critical developmental stage.”
https://www.mpg.de/16889599/0511-orni-urban-traffic-noise-causes-song-learning-deficits-in-birds-154562-x

Traffic noise disrupts vocal development and suppresses immune function
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351534211_Traffic_noise_disrupts_vocal_development_and_suppresses_immune_function

#Birds #Roads #Cars #Chronic #Stress #Learning impairments #Language #Deficits #Immunity #Anthropogenic #Noise #Pollution #GlenifferRoad #RosesRd
Image: Bellingen mural

Nothing to see here!

#Bellingen clear felling at #GlenifferRoad update.

Road diversion for four month, also known as 'road improvements'. Meanwhile #RosesRd is used as a highway is overused and cracking up.

#BellingenLogging #Deforestation #Biodiversity #GKNP #Koala #Forests

“Just 0.2% of Australia’s bus fleet is electric”
“Electrifying bus fleets is an easy first step that state governments can take toward achieving their net zero goals”
“Burning one litre of #diesel produces around 2.7kg of CO2, which means that diesel buses produce about 1.4 million tonnes of CO2 annually—roughly equivalent to the entire Australian Capital Territory’s carbon emissions in 2020-21.”
https://thedriven.io/2023/04/12/the-states-havent-delivered-report-finds-just-0-2-of-australias-buses-are-electric/
#Carbon #Emissions #Noise #Diesel #Pollution #Petrol #Diesel exhaust #Roads #Congestion #Air pollution #PublicHealth #RespiratoryHospitalisations

Fleets of diesel buses and congested traffic is redirected on to a tiny, steep country road with "dangerous bends". Note the group of cyclist that are without a cycle path and pedestrians have no footpath. Due to overuse the newly made potholes require filling up with the help of #FossilFuel and asphalt.
#Bellingen #RosesRd #Detour #Mobility

Could the road diversion be to hush up land clearing of #Koala habitat in #Bellingen?
#RosesRd #GlenifferRd #FrenchmannsCreek #Logging #GKNP #Biodiversity

#Bellingen: Bulldozing More #Roads. More, wider, faster... Have dangerous bends on very steep slopes, get #landslides and 'accidents'.
#RosesRd diy #Unsafe #Road rockfalls deep-seated slope failures mudflows debris flows #Biodiversity #habitat