It is unclear whether the speed limit will be reduced to 40 km/h outside Warrnambool's new Special Developmental School, but the city council says it supports the idea.
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Resident Christine Thompson questioned the council at its last public meeting about why no school signs or 40km/h signs had been erected on the road outside the special developmental school.
The council's infrastructure director Scott Cavanagh told the February 3 meeting he would have to follow up with the traffic department.
"It's possible that we haven't been asked to provide those yet," Mr Cavanagh said.
"VicRoads has to provide approval to us to install speed signs, so there is a process to go through to make that happen."
More than two weeks later, the signs have still not been installed on the busy road.
In a statement from the council on Thursday, the council said that initial advice from VicRoads indicated that because school drop-offs and pick-ups were to be done on the school premises, away from Wollaston Road, the speed limit would not be altered.
"However, given the road is being used by parents and carers as a drop-off zone, council supports lowering the speed limit to 40km/h," it said.
However, it gave to no timeline for when this might happen.
After years of community lobbying, the school opened the doors on its brand new facility on January 30.
Residents have long raised concerns about the speed limit along the road, and in 2017 the council permanently lowered the speed limit to 60km/h through the bends near the newer residential areas on Wollaston Road.
Years prior, the speed limit had been lowered from100km/h to 80km/h after a number of vehicles lost control.
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