Tuesday, 22 February 2022

Centre Road, Clarinda, pedestrian crossing

Mr RICH-PHILLIPS (South Eastern Metropolitan) (18:03): (1757) The matter I raise tonight is for the attention of the Minister for Roads and Road Safety in the other place, and it relates to Centre Road in Clarinda, which last week was the site of a pedestrian accident where a child from Clarinda Primary School was hit by a car and quite seriously injured. I have been contacted by a constituent regarding Centre Road and the fact that there is no pedestrian crossing from north to south on Centre Road in the vicinity of Talbot Park.

Clarinda Primary School is located on Centre Road. Further to the east in the vicinity of Melaleuca Drive there is a pedestrian crossing, but in the vicinity of the school and in the vicinity of the park between the area of Eulinga Road and Elder Street there is no pedestrian crossing. The community have recognised this is unsafe. The accident last week highlights the danger to primary school children on Centre Road in the absence of a pedestrian crossing. So the action I seek from the Minister for Roads and Road Safety is that he work with the Clarinda community to address this evident problem in Centre Road and work with that community to ensure that there is installation of a pedestrian crossing which allows pedestrians and school students to cross north to south along Centre Road in the vicinity of Talbot Park.