Mr Duffy last week announced his support for a major review and upgrade of at least 20 kilometres of Cargo Road.

But his view has clashed with a council report which has found speeding is the main problem.

During the end of last year, council installed monitoring equipment to measure traffic activity on Cargo Road, and its recorded data found an astonishingly high rate of general speeding.

However, Mr Duffy said yesterday that councils should focus on road matters and leave speeding issues to the police.

"Speeding is a matter for the police, and if people are breaking the law in this way, the police should deal with it.

"I'm firmly of the view that councils stick to actual road problems and look at the areas where work and funding are needed," he said.

Mr Duffy said he remained fully committed to a Cargo Road upgrade, and his view was confirmed since receiving numerous

comments for Cargo Road users and local

residents after first raising the idea publicly.

"I would say I've had a dozen trouble spots mentioned to me in the past few days.

"One of the major ones, which impacts on our local economy, is that orchardists are saying the rough road conditions are damaging their fruit when they travel on Cargo Road on their way to the Canberra markets," he said.

Mr Duffy found support yesterday from Cargo Road residents Garry and Anne Farrell, who have spent three months lobbying Cabonne Council to remove a roadside tree that they say blocks traffic visibility when accessing their property.

Mr Farrell said there was no doubt some people were speeding on Cargo Road, but in his opinion, lack of visibility was a greater danger.

"People do fly along, but you have got a worse thing here where you can't see traffic coming with much warning even when they travel at the normal speed limit," he said.

Mr Duffy said yesterday the Farrells' situation way typical of the niggling problems of Cargo Road.

"That's why, as a candidate, I'm calling for the review. There is a high level of frustration for residents and drivers on Cargo Road: all these things should be looked at," he said.