By BRIDGET COOK
ALMOST $1 million in funding has been announced towards a safety upgrade of a dangerous Cranbourne East intersection.
South Eastern Metropolitan Region MP Inga Peulich announced a $905,000 in funding last week for improvements to the Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road and Linsell Boulevard intersection.
The intersection has a significant crash history, with five casualty crashes, including two resulting in serious injury, over the past five years.
Ms Peulich said the project funding would be spent on addressing a history of crashes involving right hand turns.
“This intersection will receive $905,000 of safety upgrades that will deliver a second right turn lane into Linsell Boulevard that will be controlled by a right turn arrow,” she said.
“For those turning left, a slip lane from Linsell Boulevard into Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road will also be constructed and will include a pedestrian crossing.
“These works will most certainly be very welcomed by the fast-growing community in Cranbourne East.”
Work on this project is expected to start in March 2014 and be finished by mid-2014.
The project is being funded by the Safer Road Infrastructure Program (SRIP), which is aimed at making our roads and roadsides safer.
Assistant Treasurer Gordon Rich-Phillips said SRIP is funded by the Transport Accident Commission and VicRoads manages the program.
“Funded through the TAC SRIP, this unprecedented $1 billion investment, an increase of more than 30 per cent a year on the previous road safety program, is the centrepiece of the government’s Road Safety Strategy 2012/2022 to reduce the road toll,” he said.
“Victorian high-risk road locations will significantly benefit from the upgrades, providing the local community with specific and immediate safety benefits towards reducing road trauma.”
