THE Bucketts Way and The Lakes Way make the top five list of worst roads in NSW or the ACT, according to the National Roads and Motorists' Association (NRMA).
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This week the NRMA announced the Pacific Highway was again voted as the worst road in its survey of members in its Seeing Red on Roads campaign.
NRMA Deputy President Wendy Machin said significant progress had been made on the upgrade of the Pacific Highway and the NRMA expects it to fall off the top of the list after the work is completed in 2020. She said patience was the key during the final stages of the nation's most anticipated highway upgrade.
"On the North Coast the final challenge will be to bypassing the city centre of Coffs Harbour. This will give a completely duplicated highway to the Queensland border and allow the centre of Coffs Harbour to bloom when it is free of the through traffic and heavy vehicles," Ms Machin said.
"However, the highway is not the only road of significance on the North Coast as shown by the survey results. Regional and local roads are used daily by tens of thousands of North Coast residents and visitors," Ms Machin said.
"It's not enough to complete the duplication and consider that work on the North Coast is done. The region is highly urbanised and is also a tourist mecca and this as well as higher rainfall means our local roads are subject to unusual wear.
"Good work is being done but against that councils on the North and Mid North Coast have the State's biggest road maintenance backlogs," she said.
"NRMA believes part of a solution is to direct a greater proportion of the fuel excise back into roads."