Why is a rest area required at Yelgun when there is already a similar facility at Sleepy Hollow?
The Sleepy Hollow facilities are already at capacity and the Pacific Highway Safety Report (RTA 2004) stressed the need to provide rest areas to combat driver fatigue. This report identified Yelgun as a potential site. There are also some noise issues impacting on adjacent residents associated with Sleepy Hollow, which were identified in the Northern Pacific Highway Noise Taskforce Report and which recommended that the RTA should remove heavy vehicles from the Sleepy Hollow site. At the Yelgun rest area site not only are there no residences within 500 metres, (except an RTA owned property) but the area is also located in a naturally shielded area where the surrounding terrain provides good natural sound buffering. Another advantage of the Yelgun site is that using the Yelgun interchange this rest area can accommodate north and south bound traffic from both the Pacific Highway and the local service road in one facility. This avoids the duplication of facilities including those of the Dr
