Roundabout call for Military Road and Jetty Street intersection, Grange
A local MP is calling for a roundabout to be installed at a busy Grange intersection, which he says will only get worse once a four-storey apartment complex is built.
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A roundabout is needed at a busy Grange intersection to make it safer for frustrated motorists, Lee MP Stephen Mullighan says.
Mr Mullighan, a former Transport Minister, is lobbying for the traffic measure at the corner of Military Road and Jetty Street, after being asked by countless residents for a roundabout to be installed.
“It’s really difficult for people to turn right from Jetty Street on to Military Road,” Mr Mullighan said.
“A roundabout would give traffic a bit of a better go.”
Mr Mullighan wrote to former Transport Minister Stephan Knoll in March last year, asking for a roundabout.
The request was refused, with Mr Knoll saying the Transport Department had reviewed the intersection and its crash history and had advised a roundabout was not suitable.
He wrote it would result in “greater inefficiencies for traffic on Military Road and a reduction in safety for numerous road users, without improving access from Jetty St in either direction”.
Mr Mullighan said a four-storey apartment and retail complex to be built at 1-9 Jetty Street would create more traffic and exacerbate safety concerns.
Charles Sturt Council’s planning panel in March approved the development, which will have 11 ground-floor commercial tenancies and 22 apartments on the three levels above.
There will be undercroft parking for 45 cars, which will be accessed from a rear laneway off Military Rd that will be widened so two cars can use it at once.
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A social media call out by Mr Mullighan for a roundabout was overwhelmingly supported respondents.
One woman wrote she had been dodging the intersection for 22 years and another described it as a “road statistic waiting to happen”.
However, others raised concerns with other nearby intersections, including Military Road and Trimmer Parade and Grange Road and Cudmore Terrace.
The developer of the apartment and retail complex declined to comment.
DPTI has been contacted for comment.