Rate your road: Survey results

Are dodging cracks in the middle of the road becoming a regular occurrence in yours and your employees commute? Are the local roads just not wide enough to cope with the amount of traffic and causing significant impacts to your business? Well, you’re not alone in your frustrations with over 23,000 people having had their say on the state of NSW roads. This year, the NRMA opened the Rate Your Road survey, the largest survey of its kind in the state’s history and it invited members to rate roads based on their condition, level of safety and congestion.

The M5 in Liverpool received the most votes for a specific location, with 510 people identifying it as having a very poor rating for congestion. Coming in at number two was Epping Road at Ryde, followed by the Pacific Highway at Coffs Harbour and Parramatta Road at Ashfield as some of the state’s most frustrating stretches of road.

The top 10 road locations across NSW to receive the most number of votes were:

Traffic congestion consistently ranked as a factor that had one of the biggest impacts on people’s lives, and paints a dire picture of the state’s roads infrastructure. This is in line with our 2018 NRMA business member survey, where over 83% of respondents believe that congestion has increased over the last 12 months.

NRMA Chief Customer Officer Emma Harrington said tackling congestion was a strategic priority for the NRMA and would strengthen the economy and allow businesses to grow. “Our NRMA business members are telling us that congestion is costing them money and restricting growth”, Ms. Harrington said. "There is more transport infrastructure being built in Sydney today than at any time in our city's history and it is clear from our annual business survey that the community places equal weight in roads and public transport infrastructure when it comes to getting around”.