Entries Tagged 'road safety' ↓

On April 16 Hobart Council re-visited the traffic calming issue and resolved to take immediate action to remedy the Waterworks streetscape to make it more safe. Hooray!

Speed cushions will remain on it’s agenda as well, but the resolution will require council engineers to proceed with other solutions as soon as practicable, mainly alterations to the street’s architecture as advised by our community members.

This will entail further liaison with the community, but hopefully that process will be constructive and not cause more protracted indecision.

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Late last year Hobart City Council approved a new 20-lot subdivision at 25A Waterworks Rd (see story here).

Thirty residents from the area made representations to the Council on a wide range of issues, including traffic, wildlife and amenity. We think that the Council did very little to acknowledge or address the concerns of residents who made representations.

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Hello friends and neighbours,

Waterworks Valley Landcare Group has engaged a traffic engineer to look at designs for the proposed intersection at 25A Waterworks Rd.

See here, here and here three options which may help to reduce the size of the intersection, and potentially vehicle speeds through the intersection. These designs may also cater for pedestrian amenity.

Could you please reply to me indicating which option you like best?

In your email, could you please also indicate any other small-scale concerns/possible solutions around traffic at 25A that are on your minds?

Finally, please forward this to your partner if they have a separate email address. Sincere apologies if I have left anyone off, and for the tight time frame – it is what we have to work with.

Regards, Jonah Gouldthorpe

Two major subdivisions have now been submitted for 111 / 125 Waterworks Rd and at 25A Waterworks Rd, comprising altogether over 30 new house blocks on the southern side of the valley. Both have now been advertised.

Anybody who has concerns about these multi-block developments should take note and put in comments to the planning process within the 14 day period allowed.

If problems arise later there is no comeback if concerned people have not submitted their concerns about any aspect of the development. For your convenience here are some documents that have been prepared by the developers for the first development.

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Waterworks Community meeting will be held on 7.30pm, Tuesday July 26 to discuss where to go with this issue (see below for update). Venue is 135 Waterworks Rd..

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Hi all,

Thank you to everyone who turned up to make the Sunday afternoon Street wall painting a wonderful and fun event. We counted 20 adults, 7 younger and 7 small children taking part throughout the day. We had a great time.

Have a look at the wall. It’s very colorful and inspirational. Many cars passed by and slowed down to find out what was going on. It’s all about raising awareness to look out for each other on the road, share the space and make it safer for everyone to use. (Click continue reading for more pictures.)

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A ‘street wall chalk painting’

When: 25th of July (last Sunday of this month), 1.30pm.
Where: In front of Dorka’s house, 101 Waterworks Road
What: Turn the wall into a colorful space around the theme “the street is there for everyone to share”

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Put this number on your fridge – 6268 1184

This morning two women turned up in our driveway with a panic-stricken, injured wallaby and asked how to care for it.

Apart from risk to human safety, Hobart council’s inability to provide traffic calming in this area is causing needless deaths and trauma to numerous wildlife, and community members are frequently called upon to deal with them.

Here is a basic guide on how to care for an injured animal or an orphaned joey taken from the pouch of a dead mother.

Parks & Wildlife have a service number (Ph 1300 135 513), though the dedicated people at Bonorong Wildlife Park are often more contactable, having a 24 hour service: Phone 6268 1184.

At a very well-attended community meeting on October 7 there was a lot of discussion around the need for more serious speed deterrents than a 40kph limit for hoons and other speedsters.

People felt this lower limit would be of no use unless enforced (eg by a regular police presence, or better still by a fixed speed camera) and accompanied by other measures like marked crossings (perhaps).

Many doubt that appropriate levels of speed enforcement would eventuate; and, in any case, a lower limit would not solve the ‘footpath problem’.

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Believe it or not, this is for real. Traffic calming technique used in Canada. It really works.

A shocking and dangerous way to teach speeding motorists a lesson?

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Thanks to Dorka and kids for putting up this road safety sign.

Click HERE to see article in Mercury – 14th August.

You can read all about the speed humps saga by clicking HERE.

Many thanks to Tim at 156 who persuaded Hobart Council to erect three of these wildlife signs in the valley.

And to Philip at 136 for prompting the temporary installation of this speed indicator device, as an education tool /warning for local motorists.

As for Hobart Council’s proposed speed humps, these have been challenged with ferocity in various appeal tribunals by some people opposed to them. We have no choice but to await the ultimate verdict. You can hear more about this at this week’s community meeting.

3.20 pm on a Saturday afternoon. Speeding car, out of control, hits curb, tyre bursts, careens down the wrong-side-of-road on its wheel rim. An all too familiar story.

Blue line follows trajectory, car travelling this way.

Had it been a week day at that time there would have been an entourage of kids walking / cycling home just at that time.

To defend itself against a possible fatal calamity, the community has decided to take action. Keep tuned.