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(8) What is the timeframe for maintenance of accessible signalised pedestrian crossings to be completed after a request is lodged with Access Canberra.

(9) When was maintenance last conducted on the accessible signalised pedestrian crossings around the Canberra Hospital; if not undertaken in the last six months, when will these crossings be inspected and, if necessary, fixed.

Ms Fitzharris: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

(1) The following values are for the number of signalised pedestrian crossings.

a) 872, (b) 894, (c) 918, (d) 944, (e) 955. All signalised pedestrian crossings have audio-tactile push-buttons with the exception of a small number of sites where there are physical constraints that prevent their installation, as detailed at 2) below.

(2) At all new traffic signals audio-tactile push-buttons are provided for all pedestrian crossings that are part of the installation. A few older intersections may not have audio-tactile push-buttons for a specific reason. For example it is not permitted to have two such push-buttons that call the ‘walk’ for different crossings mounted on the same pedestal. Some intersections have specific geometry such that there is not room enough to have two separate pedestals on the same traffic island.

(3) All traffic signals are routinely inspected every four months and the correct operation of all push-buttons is checked as part of those inspections.

(4) Yes as part of the contract for the general maintenance of traffic signals in the Territory; (a) Provision of Traffic Signals Maintenance Services, (b) 2016.25228.210, (c) $3,277,378 over three years, (d) Three years with the option of two extensions of two years each, (e) Apart from specified routine scheduled maintenance there are specified response times for different categories of faults.

(5) As described in 3) above.

(6) The maintenance of pedestrian push-buttons is included in the contract for the general maintenance of traffic signals in the Territory referred to in 4) above and it is not possible to separate the cost associated with this specific activity.

(7) (a) 14, (b) 19, (c) 4.

(8) Respond within one working day of being notified of the fault.

(9) All intersections around The Canberra Hospital were routinely inspected in October 2017. All audio-tactile pushbuttons were operating correctly. The intersection of Yamba Drive and Kitchener Street, which is close to The Canberra Hospital but not the main pedestrian entrance, does not have audio-tactile push-buttons for the reason outlined in 2) above.

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