Below is a response from Glenn Patterson CEO Shire of Yarra Ranges on the topic of the lights and roundabout.
16/2/2009
Mario,
A meeting between our staff and Vicroads occurred mid last week. The outcomes of yesterday's meeting were:
- Vicroads is to provide a brief paper, outlining the reasons why a roundabout won't work. Our engineers agree that a roundabout is not feasible.
- Vicroads has been requested by our staff to investigate a solution that is a combination of the two options presented so far to see if it's feasible to come up with a 'compromise' design that would see all the trees retained.
It is expected that Vicroads will come back to us within a week once further detailed design is done, following which councillors will consider the proposed solution. I'll keep you informed as this progresses.
Glenn
A meeting between our staff and Vicroads occurred mid last week. The outcomes of yesterday's meeting were:
- Vicroads is to provide a brief paper, outlining the reasons why a roundabout won't work. Our engineers agree that a roundabout is not feasible.
- Vicroads has been requested by our staff to investigate a solution that is a combination of the two options presented so far to see if it's feasible to come up with a 'compromise' design that would see all the trees retained.
It is expected that Vicroads will come back to us within a week once further detailed design is done, following which councillors will consider the proposed solution. I'll keep you informed as this progresses.
Glenn
1 comment:
I wish council would realize that it is often almost impossible to safely exit Ingram Road onto the Maroondah Hwy at weekends. This is even more dangerous because at weekends there is always a steady stream of cars and trailers trying to get to the council recycling center. The number of hair raising dashes across the road one sees is quite alarming. Traffic lights must be installed somewhere as soon as possible to provide pulsed gaps in the flow of Maroondah Hwy traffic.
A trivial debate about the fate an unimpressive lop sided tree rather than urgent action to fix a dangerous traffic situation does little to enhance the standing of council in our community.
Maybe one of the councilors should be made to live in Ingram Road and experience the problems on a daily basis.
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