PHASE One concept plans detailing a possible "solution” for improving road safety at the Eight Mile intersection have come before the Southern Downs Road Safety Advisory Committee.

The plans, now at the detailed design stage, includes a "fly-over” for traffic travelling north-south between Warwick and Toowoomba at the intersection of the Cunningham Highway and New England Highway.

A spokeswoman from the Department of Transport said the department was liasing with council over the plans.

"It is expected the design will be completed later this year,” she said.

Southern Downs MP James Lister said he would support the department's plans, despite feeling among some residents that a solution wasn't necessary.

"I have spoken to many who feel that the people just need to follow the road rules, like observing the speed limits and stopping at stop signs,” Mr Lister said.

"I agree with them but I will still be pleased to see any improvements that the department would like to propose.”

Warwick and District Road Safety Group chairman Graham Buchner said a similar intersection located on the Cunningham Highway at Amberley seemed to function without an overpass.

"When you look at it I don't see the danger that a lot of other people see,” he said.

"They have exactly the same configuration at the Amberley Base where they have hundreds of vehicles coming each day.”

Mr Buchner said the problem was people's "inability” to follow the road rules at the Eight Mile intersection.

"How on earth you get people to obey the rules for the road, for that I am at a loss,” he said.

But he said an intersection overpass would probably be the best solution in the long- term.

In a council meeting last week, deputy mayor Jo McNally said a solution for the intersection was necessary.

"That is an intersection that needs to be fixed once and for all,” she said.

"Reducing the speed is not fixing the safety aspect for drivers,” she said.