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■ Fatality fears on danger road to become an election issue...

Vote for safety By MELISSA MEEHAN

From left, Dani Read, Craig Drummond, Meaghan Draper, Jenny Maloney, Justin Lynham, and behind is Fiona King, the mother of a worker. 125546 “VicRoads receives many requests each year for pedestrian safety projects and each request must be looked at in terms of priority, taking a number of factors into account including traffic volumes, pedestrian activity levels and cost. “The Coalition Government and VicRoads will work together and look at

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working with all stakeholders to develop an action plan to address pedestrian safety on York Road outside Yarra View Nursery. “Significant research has indicated strong justification for a permanent pedestrian signal crossing to be installed at this section of York Road,” Cr McCarthy said.

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all these factors and make a decision shortly about future plans for the crossing to make sure that everyone can cross York Road in the safest environment possible.” Yarra Ranges Council Deputy Mayor Maria McCarthy has thrown her support behind the people at Yarra View Nursery and said the council was

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“VicRoads have been working closely with the local community, the Yarra Ranges Council, Mount Evelyn Christian School and the Yarra Views Nursery to try and address these concerns and I thank the council for commissioning the York Road School Crossing Observational Study,” Mr Mulder said.

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DISABLED workers are at risk of being injured or killed if a pedestrian crossing isn’t installed outside Yarra View Nursery, according to its disability manager Karen Dettmann. Ms Dettmann is pushing the York Road crossing as a local election issue in Mount Evelyn and is calling on Roads Minister Terry Mulder to act before it’s too late. “We’ve been working with the Yarra Ranges Council who has been really supportive on this issue,” Ms Dettmann said. “Through this we have also been able to work with VicRoads to reduce the speed limit along York Road and, although the traffic is slower at 60 kilometres per hour, it’s still not the answer.” Ms Dettmann said her workers had a range of mental and physical disabilities and often couldn’t judge what was a safe distance for them to cross between moving vehicles. “Since we really started pushing the issue we’ve had three near misses and we’ve just been lucky that no one has been injured,” she said. “And what really gets my blood boiling is that the minister hasn’t thought it was important enough to send anyone down to check out the issue - not even a local member.” She said seeing the problem first -hand might help Mr Mulder and his colleagues to understand the issue. Parents and siblings are already choosing to stop workers from catching the bus home, which in turn takes away some of their independence. “There will be an accident out there,” she said. “It’s just a matter of time.” Minister for Roads Terry Mulder said the government was aware of the concerns around pedestrian safety along York Road and understood the workers from the Yarra View Nursery can at times feel unsafe crossing the road to get to and from work each day.


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