September 1-28, 2024: Issue 634
Cabbage Tree Road Bayview Safety improvements: Update - Works to Commence Soon
Council's Local Traffic Committee have endorsed the final plan in August 2024. Council states works will commence soon to install the safety devices.
In response to residents’ concerns raised during community consultation and to improve safety and reduce the likelihood and severity of accidents at the location of the recent fatality, we proposed additional traffic calming solutions.
The recommended improvements supported by the Local Traffic Committee are:
- Installation of a raised threshold with marked cycle ways, warning, and speed advisory signs on Pittwater Road near the intersection with Cabbage Tree Road
- Installation of a raised threshold with warning, and speed advisory signs on Cabbage Tree Road in front of No.12 and Bayview Golf Club, between Beaumont Crescent and Binnowee Place.
- Installation of a raised threshold with warning, and speed advisory signs on Cabbage Tree Road near Annam Road in front of Bayview Golf Club and Bayview Gardens Retirement Living.
- Installation of a safety Guard rail (25m) in front of Bayview Golf Club at the intersection of Cabbage Tree Road with Beaumont Crescent.
- Installation of Reflective Pavement Markers (approximately 50m) on centrelines on Cabbage Tree Road between House No.6 Cabbage Tree Road and No.6 Binnowee Place and
- Installation of Reflective Pavement Markers (approximately 35m) on centrelines on Cabbage Tree Road south of Annam Road in front of Bayview Golf Club and Bayview Gardens Retirement Living.
- Installation of a raised median on Cabbage Tree Road near the intersection with Annam Road.
- Installation of curve warning and advisory speed signs on Cabbage Tree Road between No. 24 Cabbage Tree Road and Bayview Gardens Retirement Living
- Installation of street lighting in front of No.14A Cabbage Tree Road
- Installation of Profile line marking (Audio Tactile) – Type A and retro reflective pavement markers (RRPMs) for centrelines around the bend near Annam Road south - Approx 190m
- Installation of Steel Rail Safety Barrier around the tree opposite Bayview Gardens Retirement living – approximately 20 m (location of recent fatality)
Council states ''the changes will improve the speed at which motorists travel, keep motorists within their own lane and improve overall road safety for both motorists and pedestrians.
The installation of a cycle way on either side of the proposed raised threshold on Pittwater Road near Cabbage Tree Road will facilitate safe passage for cyclists on the popular road cycling route.''
The project is funded through the Australian Government Black Spot Program.
The objective of black spot projects is to reduce the social and economic costs of road trauma by:
- identifying and applying cost-effective treatment of locations with a record of casualty crashes
- placing significant focus on the need to reduce rural road trauma, in accordance with national road safety policy objectives
- using a proportion of funds to treat sites identified as potential crash locations, and to implement other road safety measures.
The Black Spot Program makes an important contribution in reducing the national road toll under the National Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan, providing financial assistance to improve the physical condition or management of sites noted for a high incidence of crashes involving death and injury.
Black spot projects focus on locations where the highest benefits can be achieved. Works eligible for funding may include safety-related construction, alteration or remedial treatment.
Black spot projects also aim to encourage the implementation of safety-related traffic management techniques and other road safety measures that have proven road safety value. This includes traffic signs, traffic control equipment and street lighting.
The Australian Government contributes up to 100% funding for black spot projects under this program.
This program is funded and administered by Transport for NSW.