These treatments are intended to improve public safety by reducing the number of crashes and improving pedestrian amenity and accessibility. Since Read Street is a major north-south corridor in the City, these upgrades will deliver benefits to the wider community.
This footpath is in the vicinity of Rockingham Senior High School and there is an increasing number of students travelling on it to cross Read Street. The new footpath alignment is intended to improve safety by reducing the number of conflicts with traffic along the footpath route.
The Read Street service road at Farris St (four way) and Livingstone Road at Robinson Road (three way) are minor intersections. These minor intersections are in close proximity to major intersections at Read Street. With various traffic movements at minor and major intersections overlapping with one another, there were a high number of clashes at these locations. By closing the northern legs of these minor intersections, the risk of incidents will significantly be reduced.
Cul-del-sacs will be provided at these locations to allow on-road traffic in the Read Street service road and Livingstone Road to turn around, especially the rubbish trucks.
Yes, there will be disruption in accessing businesses/properties/schools around these intersections during construction however we will minimise any inconvenience by providing on-site traffic management.
Yes, we will take the opportunity to re-route/replace some footpaths to improve access for cyclists and pedestrians. We will also undertake a lighting study of all affected intersections to determine if an upgrade is required.