By ALECIA PINNER
A STRONG police presence is the best answer to hoons tearing up suburban streets, Doveton residents say.
Casey council has received a petition signed by 37 people who live
near Doveton College, seeking urgent action to slow speeding cars in
Fugosia and Tristania streets.
Residents in surrounding streets say they want the area policed as hoons see speed humps as a challenge.
A mother living in Chestnut Road said speed humps installed in her street did nothing to deter hoon drivers.
“Around here there’s a lot of it – they do burn-outs and doughnuts,” she said.
A neighbour said hoons learnt to navigate traffic islands. A regular police presence was the best solution, she said.
In Ti Tree Drive, where black tyre marks are the evidence of hooning, a resident said the problem was not just at night.
“It has been bad lately,” he said. “That big one [tyre mark] happened at tea-time.”
Casey council transport manager Paul Hamilton said his department was investigating concerns and collecting traffic data.
