Hopes for speed review sees slow progress

A LOCAL resident is frustrated at what they say is a lack of action after campaigning for years for a speed review of Campbell Street in Wonthaggi. 

According to the resident, they had contacted Bass Coast Shire in 2019 and 2020, raising concerns about the street such as:

• The street transitions from 100km/h zone to a 50km/h zone, (no intermediate speed buffer)

• Fronts Low Density Residential Zoned Land

• Caters for shire roadside bin collection 

• Bisects a shire wildlife corridor 

• Fronts several blind residential premise driveways 

The resident has since contacted the shire again to see if there had been any progress of a review, after noticing other roads such as Lynnes Road in Wattlebank were under review. 

In response, the shire stated they acknowledged the concerns regarding Campbell Street. 

“The Department of Transport (DoT) regulate speed limit changes in Victoria.  The VicRoads Speed Zoning Guidelines are applied to set speed limits consistently and credibly across Victoria,” a shire spokesperson said. 

“Council advocates on the community’s behalf with requests to change speed limits on Council managed roads on the State managed arterial road network.  Council receive a number of community requests for speed reductions each year.

“Council is working with DoT to assess this request along with many others.  

“Campbell Street has been added to the speed limit change priority list for further investigation and review. 

“The investigation will inform what treatment options would be appropriate.”