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  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
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    1 year ago

    I’m gonna be honest, I don’t understand why CRR is doing anything in Fairfield. I thought it was about connecting Boggo Rd to Central via the Gabba and Albert St.

    I’m also not sure why what looks like an incredibly minor residential side-street would need a zebra crossing. The whole thing could be easily averted by reducing the speed limit to the 30 km/h this street should obviously be. Maybe change the road surface to brick instead of asphalt, and turn it into a sort of woonerf design.

    Not that our car-brained council would ever do something like that.

    Failing that, hopefully at least this crossing that’s being put in will be a wombat crossing?

    • murbul@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      The southside stations were identified as a bottleneck for the increased throughput that CRR adds, so Fairfield to Salisbury are getting extra platforms and raised existing platforms to better support NGR. And I think they rolled in the long overdue accessibility upgrades at the same time. AFAIK that was always the plan from the start, but there was also the late addition of the 3 new stations on the GC that have somehow been tacked on to the CRR project.

      That street gets pretty busy during peak with drop-offs and commuters, and there’s access to the shopping centre too (which could/should be easily closed). But yeah I wouldn’t have thought it would be super high priority.