The Shire seeks to facilitate on street parking around business’s when safe to do so. As part of our responsibilities as the road manager we need to ensure that any parking arrangement won’t put road users, including pedestrians at any unacceptable level of risk.
In January 2024 we instigated a detailed parking and road safety assessment(PDF, 4MB) of the area (including a review from a leading independent road safety consultant) and summarise the key findings of this review as follows:
- Parking on curves and bends from a road safety perspective & according to Australian standard for on-street parking, ‘AS 2890.5:2020’ and ‘Austroads Guide to Traffic Management Part 11: Parking Management Techniques’, is not acceptable under the existing circumstances, disqualifying many of the existing ‘no stopping’ areas from being safely used for safe parking.
- Pedestrian risks are high given the speeding environment (60km/h), low visibility during night time and limited sight distance; there are high risks associated when pedestrians walk along this curved road shoulder after parking.
- Rear-end crash risk are a high risk given the combination of limited sightlines and unexpected parking and pedestrian movements may result in a rear end or a pedestrian related crash.
- Lack of required sight distance present a high risk. Intersection/driveway visibility and sightlines are also items of concern associated with road shoulder parking at this section. Vehicles parking too close to an intersection or driveway reduces the sightlines between exiting vehicles on the minor road and approaching vehicles. This increases the risk of intersection related crashes, particularly side on collisions.
Removing existing ‘no stopping’ restrictions in this area would pose an unacceptable risk to road users and the broader community who travel this section of road.
As per a recommendation in the Red Hill Traffic Management Plan we are currently installing a pedestrian refuge crossing, additional parking and pedestrian safety improvements to make this area more functional and safer for all road users, click to Download Arthurs Seat Rd - Black Spot Project - Civil Works - Detail Design(PDF, 1016KB)