Dowling Street Dungog has been named as one of the top five worst roads in the region in an NRMA survey.
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The NRMA launched its Rate Your Road survey in January to give voters a voice leading up to the March 23 NSW Election.
The NRMA has released the local results of the comprehensive survey which saw almost 10,000 roads receive votes from 23,400 people across the state.
Roads in the Newcastle and Hunter regions received 2,191 votes.
Participants were asked to rate their road on a scale of very poor to excellent (rating out of 100) based on congestion, condition and safety. Voters also rated local public transport services.
Dowling Street came in at number five with 31 votes due to its condition while the other top four roads were voted in due to congestion.
The top five roads across the region to receive the most number of votes were:
New England Highway, 209 votes, Nelson Bay Road, 131 votes; Pacific Highway at Hexam, 46 votes; Newcastle Road, 35 votes and Dowling Street at Dungog with 31 votes.
In addition, the roads and highways across the state to receive the most number of overall votes were: Pacific Highway, Princes Highway, Parramatta Road, M5 Motorway and Pennant Hills Road.
NRMA spokesperson Peter Khoury thanked the Newcastle and Hunter communities for their overwhelming response to the NRMA's Rate Your Road campaign, and said the data would be critical as the NRMA worked to improve the region's transport network.
"To have mobilised more than 2,000 people from around the Newcastle and Hunter regions for the NRMA's state election campaign is very humbling, and our commitment to the community is that their participation will not go to waste," Mr Khoury said.
Mr Khoury said the message from this survey to policymakers from all levels of Government was simple - as long as our cities and towns continue to grow, so too must our commitment to visionary policies around roads and public transport.
"These survey results are telling. Across the region, motorists have called out congestion as their number one concern. I'm pleased to see the New England highway safety upgrade currently underway is working, with less drivers concerned about safety and condition of the road," Mr Khoury said.
"Where money is spent we see improvements, so I'm pleased to see both sides of politics pledging billions of dollars to our roads in the lead up to the election."
Dungog Shire Council has a planned $2.2million upgrade of Dowling Street.
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