August 9th 2012

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Southern Peninsula

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Driving force: Students backing the 2012 Arthurs Seat Challenge are, from left, Laura Morley (Toorak College), Jack Taylor (Rosebud Secondary College), Leah Bourne, Jordan Barnes, Joel Munger and Natasha Sharp (Mt Eliza secondary) and Maddy Forrester (Rosebud seconday) with, centre, event coordinator Michelle Pitcher. Picture: Yanni

THE 6.7km Arthurs Seat Challenge has been running each year since 2002, lifting the profile and raising money for the Fit to Drive Program. Fit to Drive is a road safety awareness program provided to Year 11 students at every secondary school on the Mornington Peninsula and in Frankston. “It was the tragic loss of young life in car crashes in 1999 and 2000 in our community that saw the beginning of Fit to Drive, an initiative that was a direct and impassioned response from school principals who accepted the challenge of reducing the toll and helping to save young lives,� coordinator Michelle Pitcher said. This year’s challenge starts at Rosebud pier at 8.30am on Sunday 11 November and finishes at the top of Arthurs Seat. Students of Mt Eliza Secondary College, Toorak College and Rosebud Secondary College as well as school principals were at Arthurs Seat to launch this year’s event on Wednesday 1 August. Also at the launch were Education Minister and Nepean MP Martin Dixon, representatives of event sponsors Mornington Peninsula News Group, Bendigo Bank Rye and Dromana, Nicholas Lynch Real Estate, Monash University, the Sports Injury Clinic and the Southern Peninsula Classic and Historic Car Club. “The Arthurs Seat Challenge provides a fantastic opportunity for schools, families and community members to rally together and raise awareness of the overrepresentation of young people in road crashes, in the hope we can continue to make a difference and alleviate the pain road trauma causes,� Ms Pitcher said. For Fit to Drive details or to register for the Arthurs Seat Challenge: www.arthursseatchallenge.com.au

Village Glen traffic lights By Mike Hast THE Village Glen retirement complex in Rosebud West will get long-awaited vehicle traffic lights at its entrance to Eastbourne Rd. The state government on Tuesday promised $170,000 from its Safer Roads Infrastructure Program for the T-intersection signals, which were costed at $640,000 last year. The balance will be paid by Village Glen owner Community Villages Australia, founded and owned by Mt Eliza millionaire Chas Jacobsen. The government decision brings

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to an end a long-running saga where Community Villages Australia, VicRoads and Mornington Peninsula Shire went back and forth over the type of lights and who would pay. Lights were proposed more than 10 years ago when Village Glen was expanded. VicRoads said at the time a traffic count taken during the peak season in January 2000 was lower than the criteria for a pedestrian crossing. Two residents of the village have been killed in accidents at or near the T-intersection – a female pedestrian in July 2001 and a female driver in July

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year black spot funding, for which the federal government had provided $500,000 for nine black spots. At an emotional and rowdy council meeting at Balnarring last March, some of the more than 90 Village Glen residents in the packed public gallery – who had made the trek across the peninsula – cheered and clapped councillors who spoke for the money, but jeered those who spoke against. Councillors speaking against paying the $100,000 said the shire should not be putting scarce funds into lights at one retirement village on the peninsula. Continued Page 6

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over cost sharing disagreements. After the 2010 fatality, which devastated residents and the wider community, there were renewed calls for the intersection to be made safer for the village’s 900 residents. The 2007 plan was revived and submitted to the shire by Village Glen management, which wanted the cost shared three ways with the shire and VicRoads, which owns Eastbourne Rd. The council refused to pay its $213,000 and Village Glen management upped its contribution, proposing the shire put in $100,000, which would have come from its 2010-11 financial

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