General News
9 February, 2023
Town treatment study
MANAGEMENT of speed at intersections and in towns along the Calder Highway from Ravenswood to the NSW border may strengthen Inglewood’s push for a 40kmh town limit. That’s according to Loddon Shire councillor Wendy Murphy who represents council...
MANAGEMENT of speed at intersections and in towns along the Calder Highway from Ravenswood to the NSW border may strengthen Inglewood’s push for a 40kmh town limit.
That’s according to Loddon Shire councillor Wendy Murphy who represents council on the Calder Highway Improvement Committee.
Cr Murphy said when local speed limits were last raised in 2021, Regional Roads Victoria did not “show a lot of support”.
However, Cr Murphy said the issue would again be raised at a committee meeting next month and a safe system solutions study on speed zones due to start soon could be important to the local push.
Cr Murphy said the narrow street, parking, dog legs and a shopping strip along Brooke Street created conditions “not necessarily conducive to driving at 50kmh”.
There were other highway towns in Victoria where the town speed limit had been reduced to 40kmh, she said.