TRAFFIC lights need to be installed at a busy Berwick intersection to avoid fatalities similar to the Hampton Park tragedy, a Casey councillor says.
Cr Sam Aziz successfully moved at a recent Casey Council meeting for letters to be sent to VicRoads and Roads Minister Tim Pallas calling for:
- Traffic lights to be installed at the intersection of Centre and Clyde roads.
- Left turn deceleration lanes for the intersection of Stewart Avenue and the Princes Highway and Richardson Street and the Princes Highway in Narre Warren.
Cr Aziz had received many complaints from residents about these two segments of the arterial road network, which he said were being subjected to increasing traffic as Casey expanded.
"I receive more calls about these spots than any other traffic issue," he said.
"My issue is I don't want, God forbid, for a fatality to happen there (at the Berwick intersection).
"Traffic lights should have been there a long time ago."
Interim traffic lights have been installed by VicRoads at the intersection of Hallam and Ormond roads, which recently claimed five young lives over two weeks.
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