Protect Coral Bay’s children, pedestrians and community We, the undersigned, call on the Shire of Carnarvon to keep French Street closed to through traffic and retain the existing restriction in place.
French Street should remain a safer street for the people who live, walk, ride, and gather in Coral Bay. Reopening it to through traffic would put children, pedestrians, and the wider community at greater risk and would undo a sensible measure that already helps protect local families and visitors. This is not a small change. It would bring more vehicles, more speed, more noise, and more danger to a place where safety should come first.
Coral Bay is a community, not a shortcut. The current restriction on French Street gives people more confidence to move around safely and helps keep the area calm and welcoming. There is no good reason to create extra risk when the road is already serving the community well as it is.
We ask the Shire of Carnarvon to listen to residents and visitors and keep French Street closed to through traffic. Please protect the safety of Coral Bay’s children, pedestrians, and community by leaving this restriction in place.
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Reached 100 supporters
October 2, 2026
49 Comments
As regular visitors to Coral Bay one of the main draw cards is knowing the kids can roam safely.
We visit Coral Bay every year with kids and it's giving them the opportunity to have a holiday like we had holidays when we were kids. This is just unnecessary changes that benefit no one
I am a resident here in Coral Bay and opening this road up is a hazard for the locals living in that area and children playing around the playground. Coral Bay is supposed to be a safe place for children and families but this will cause incidents.
Spent around 10 years living in the bay and know first hand how everyone moves around the bay.Wether on foot ,push bike or quad bike for some.Cars were not really needed to get anywhere in the bay as a visitor nor as a local really.Apart from businesses.French Street divides a caravan park which has ablution block,pool and cafes that locals and visitors enjoy strolling on foot to use these facilities. WHY would a Safety focused organisation want to push more traffic into a pedestrian zone ?
Opening French St will ruin the peace and quiet everyone loves, not to mention putting lives in danger! Very bad idea!
Let kids be kids!
As regular visitors we always see kids riding/walking between parks and people regularly crossing a road is absolutely unnecessary it takes no less than 5 min to drive around using the existing roads
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Protect Coral Bay’s children, pedestrians and community We, the undersigned, call on the Shire of Carnarvon to keep French Street closed to through traffic and retain the existing restriction in place.
French Street should remain a safer street for the people who live, walk, ride, and gather in Coral Bay. Reopening it to through traffic would put children, pedestrians, and the wider community at greater risk and would undo a sensible measure that already helps protect local families and visitors. This is not a small change. It would bring more vehicles, more speed, more noise, and more danger to a place where safety should come first.
Coral Bay is a community, not a shortcut. The current restriction on French Street gives people more confidence to move around safely and helps keep the area calm and welcoming. There is no good reason to create extra risk when the road is already serving the community well as it is.
We ask the Shire of Carnarvon to listen to residents and visitors and keep French Street closed to through traffic. Please protect the safety of Coral Bay’s children, pedestrians, and community by leaving this restriction in place.
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Reached 100 supporters
October 2, 2026
49 Comments
To open a road in the middle of a caravan park is ridiculous it has been closed for years why now open the road too many children and elderly around it would be far too busy with traffic to run through the middle of the park not to mention be very busy running past the accommodation of the ferments living on that street
As regular visitors to Coral Bay one of the main draw cards is knowing the kids can roam safely.
We visit Coral Bay every year with kids and it's giving them the opportunity to have a holiday like we had holidays when we were kids. This is just unnecessary changes that benefit no one
I am a resident here in Coral Bay and opening this road up is a hazard for the locals living in that area and children playing around the playground. Coral Bay is supposed to be a safe place for children and families but this will cause incidents.
Spent around 10 years living in the bay and know first hand how everyone moves around the bay.Wether on foot ,push bike or quad bike for some.Cars were not really needed to get anywhere in the bay as a visitor nor as a local really.Apart from businesses.French Street divides a caravan park which has ablution block,pool and cafes that locals and visitors enjoy strolling on foot to use these facilities. WHY would a Safety focused organisation want to push more traffic into a pedestrian zone ?
Opening French St will ruin the peace and quiet everyone loves, not to mention putting lives in danger! Very bad idea!
Let kids be kids!
As regular visitors we always see kids riding/walking between parks and people regularly crossing a road is absolutely unnecessary it takes no less than 5 min to drive around using the existing roads
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To open a road in the middle of a caravan park is ridiculous it has been closed for years why now open the road too many children and elderly around it would be far too busy with traffic to run through the middle of the park not to mention be very busy running past the accommodation of the ferments living on that street