Just when you thought an end was in sight to traffic disruption in Warrnambool’s CBD, Warrnambool City Council has given the go-ahead for more.
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The council decided at its meeting on Monday to embark upon several pedestrian safety initiatives in the CBD aimed at making the CBD more pedestrian-friendly.
The initiatives include the installation of pedestrian crossings at the roundabouts at the intersections of Koroit and Fairy streets, Kepler and Koroit streets, and Kepler and Timor streets.
Speed humps are to be installed on the pedestrian crossing in Lava Street, mid-block between Kepler and Liebig streets, and on the crossing in Koroit St, mid-block between Liebig and Kelper Sts.
Crossings in Timor St between Banyan and Liebig streets, and in Liebig St between Timor St and Smith Ave are to also get speed humps.
Flaherty Lane from Kepler Street into the Ozone car park is to be made one way into the car park and a pedestrian walkway created along Flaherty Lane.
Markings will be painted on Liebig Street showing it is a 30 kilometre an hour zone, and on Lava, Koroit, Timor, Fairy, Kepler and Merri streets to show they are 40kmh zones.
The move comes despite strong opposition to the introduction last year of pedestrian crossings at the roundabouts at the intersections of Liebig and Lava streets, and Liebig and Koroit streets.
That move generated a petition with nearly 5000 signatures calling for the crossings to be removed but did not convince the council to remove the crossings.
The latest move to extend pedestrian crossings to other locations across the CBD was carried with an unanimous vote by Warrnambool’s seven councillors.
It came after the Transport Accident Commission offered $733,000 towards the $1.673,900 cost of the initiatives.
The council had $600,000 from its renewal programs to contribute to the project and decided to fund the remaining $340,000 through its 2018-19 budget process.
