By Casey Neill
A half-million dollar project is tackling rat-running and speeding in Greater Dandenong streets.
Councillors awarded a $536,586 contract for local area traffic management (LATM) works to Blue Peak Constructions at their Monday 14 May meeting.
Engineering services director Julie Reid said Beau Vorno Avenue in Keysborough and Eagle Drive and Terrigal Drive in Noble Park North would receive traffic calming devices.
She said they would address concerns that local residents raised regarding rat-running and inappropriate vehicles speeds.
Eagle and Terrigal drives will receive raised safety platforms at key intersections, and a change in priority treatment at the intersection of Eagle Drive and Alpine Crescent.
“A change in priority treatment means an intersection will be modified to give one direction priority over another, by changing which movements are required to give way,” Ms Reid said.
Beau Vorno Avenue will have raised safety platforms where it intersects with both Liverpool and Caribbean drives.
Ms Reid said raised safety platforms had been used with great success at other locations including Bundeena Avenue, Keysborough, and a change in priority treatment had worked well in Somerset Drive, Dandenong North.
She said the State Government was supporting the projects through its Safe Travel in Local Streets program.
Works are due to start soon and expected to be completed in August.
