Residents fed up with fast lane

By Bridget Brady
HUNT Club residents are calling on the council to install speed humps in the estate to improve a dangerous corner and deter hoon behaviour.
Residents in the Cranbourne East estate say motorists are building up too much speed on the main feeder roads of the estate they describe as “drag strips”.
And Geoff Cohen said the corner of Foxwood Drive and Willowbank Place was an accident waiting to happen as many motorists cut the corner and crossed into the other lane.
“There is going to be a bingle for sure. It is a poorly designed corner,” Mr Cohen said.
Something needed to be done soon because the traffic was tipped to increase when the new Prep to Year 12 school opened in the estate in 2011, Mr Cohen said.
“It’s only going to get worse.”
Another resident Andrew, who did not want his surname used, said he would like to see a traffic island at the dangerous corner to separate the two lanes.
Andrew and Mr Cohen said they wanted two or three speed humps built on Foxwood Drive and three or four along the long stretch of Broad Oak Drive.
“These eyes get all excited when they see a long stretch of road with nothing to slow them down,” Mr Cohen said.
Andrew said Casey Council had conducted a survey earlier this year about the speed in the estate that revealed 15 per cent of motorists were exceeding the 50km/h speed limit.
Mayor Geoff Ablett visited the site and has asked that council officers investigate the residents’ speed concerns in the estate.
“To the mayor’s credit he actually came out and had a look,” Mr Cohen said.
Casey Traffic Management Unit Sergeant Pat McGavigan said police were aware of complaints in the estate and would continue to monitor traffic in the estate and enforce penalties where applicable.
There are more than 900 homes in the estate and that number is expected to rise to about 1200 in the future.