Residents of Richmond Hill will be celebrating this morning. It is the first day in a year they won't be greeted by lollipop holders and suffer delays as 2.85km of Richmond Hill Road was reconstructed.

The $4.95 million project was certainly needed. At one stage, there were more potholes that could damage tyres and rims than Lismore had buyback houses.

As Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin said, Richmond Hill Road is also a cut-through road with increasing traffic as Goonellabah residents use the road to get to Bangalow Road if they want to head to Bexhill, Clunes or Bangalow.

There are 2,500 vehicle movements a day on Richmond Hill Road, Ms Saffin is one of those. She has watched its reconstruction take shape.

“This is another example of the NSW Government partnering with local government to improve an important connector road. It is built back better,” Ms Saffin said.

“I was impressed by the staged approach taken by Lismore City Council infrastructure team’ to what was a challenging, sloping section of the road, with efforts to minimise disruption to motorists and local residents.”

Lismore City Mayor Steve Krieg thanked the community for its patience as Council undertook this work on the major regional road.

“Richmond Hill Road is heavily used by the community; however, the state of the road was such that it had to be reconstructed rather than simply repaired,” he said.

“This is an important win for the community and ensures this connection supports good commute times and much safer and comfortable travel.”

The Richmond Hill Road project was completed over seven stages, incorporating more than 21,000m2 of in-situ stabilisation, placement of over 12,000 tonnes of new pavement material and adjustments to more than 90 driveways.

Mayor Krieg also said these works had been in the pipeline for a number of years, and they have restored the structural integrity of the road pavement while improving motorists' ride and safety characteristics.

“Roads are very important for Council and for our community – we maintain 804km of sealed and 411km of unsealed roads across the LGA – and we are working hard to build, upgrade and maintain a safe and connected local road network,” Mayor Krieg said.

"I have to mention Brendan Logan, our Chief Operating Officer, who came to us last year and asked how we prioritise the works to be done, and Richmond Hill Road, obviously, with the state of it, was right up the top of the list. And full credit to the staff of Lismore city council, who have done all of the work. We contributed a bit more than a third of the funding. But Lismore City Council road crews completed all of the work, and they've done an absolutely stellar job on completing this project."

Mayor Krieg pointed to the ridge to his right, where council announced a new sewage pump station that will house over 600 potential blocks of land.

"This is a growing area. It's a dynamic area, and roads like this and infrastructure like this go a long way to making our residents really enjoy where they live."

"We want to see this place develop and grow and thrive, and it's going to be silly little things like a really great road that could be the selling point for people to come and move up to the Richmond Hill area. And let's hope that down the track, we'll see growth and stability and Lismore return to where it rightfully should be as the best Regional Center in Australia.

The Richmond Hill Road roadworks were jointly funded by the State Government’s Fixing Local Roads program ($2.8 million), Regional Emergency Road Repair Fund ($220,500) and Lismore City Council ($1,929,500).