Page 1684 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 1 May 2012
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clearly have been needed for so many years. I moved into Gowrie in 1984, and the Bugden Avenue-Sternberg roundabout was an issue then. Anybody who comes off Castleton Crescent and down into that intersection knows the difficulty, except if they happen to live in Fadden; if you happen to live in Fadden you do not have a problem because you go all the way up the Bugden Avenue loop and you get priority. So maybe what Mr Smyth is doing is trying to delay the exercise because his leader gets the priority treatment when he gets to that particular intersection.
Mr Coe: They put speed humps there to stop that.
MR HARGREAVES: Maybe that is the case. I asked a question before I came to this place: why can’t we do something about this intersection? And I was told at the time that at the intersection, the roundabout, there was not enough room with the adjacent houses to be able to come up with a solution. Traffic lights were only ever going to be the solution at that intersection—and I am tickled pink to see that funds are being provided in this supplementary budget for just that purpose.
I travel in that particular part of the world, through the congestion, twice a week—I live in Wanniassa so I live on the other side of it predominantly—and I see the issue there every time I do it. In the closing parts of the day to get out of Gowrie and go home I have to negotiate the Ashley Drive and Statton Street intersection and it is dangerous; it is frightening. If anybody can come up with a solution, however short term it might be, I will congratulate them.
What Mr Smyth forgot to tell everybody in the chamber about the intersections onto Ashley Drive from Ellerston Avenue, Clive Steele Avenue and Clift Crescent was that they are entrees to Ashley Drive from a whole suburb. The only way you can get to Erindale shopping centre from Calwell, from Isabella Plains and from Richardson is to go down Ashley Drive. Those intersections carry a whole suburb’s worth of motor cars. They are a candidate for some sort of traffic control measure, in the interests of safety alone.
Quite clearly Mr Smyth says he has not seen such a configuration of traffic lights. He has not been down Benjamin Way particularly often, has he?
Mr Coe interjecting—
MR HARGREAVES: Mr Coe does not know where Benjamin Way is, but I have to say that there are more traffic lights down there than there are trees. He has got a very loud voice, though, for a little frog, don’t you think?
MR SPEAKER: Members, the matter at hand.
MR HARGREAVES: The works indicated in this report are in two stages. Mr Smyth says, “Of course the money has not been provided.” But it has been indicated how much it is worth in the second stage. We are talking about the Erindale Drive bit, and the bits around the Erindale shopping centre are difficult; the Comrie intersection with Sternberg is particularly difficult. One of the issues is that if you come out of Comrie Street and want to go to McWhae Circuit you have got to do a rather nasty Z-shaped
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