Shoalhaven roads are still a top priority for the NSW Government, with the region to receive $5 million in road safety upgrades.
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NSW Roads Minister Melinda Pavey joined South Coast MP Shelley Hancock at the Jindy Andy Lane and Greenwell Point Road intersection on Wednesday, to announce the hot spot was one of six projects to be delivered as part of the Saving Lives on Country Roads Program.
“While we’ve allocated $1 billion to the Princes Highway, it’s important to fix some of these hot spots up,” Ms Pavey said.
“Because of those accident rates we’ve seen in some sections of the South Coast, we are putting the money where it needs to go to immediately, to make our roads that bit safer.”
Some of the projects include a $2.1 million upgrade for the Princes Highway between Bawley Point Road and Batemans Bay, $770,000 for Sussex Inlet Road, $740,000 for the Greenwell Point Road, Jindy Andy Lane intersection and $800,000 for Coonemia Road, Wollumboola.
Ms Hancock said in the Greenwell Point and Jindy Andy Lane intersection vicinity, there had been nine accidents and one fatality.
“That’s nine accidents and one fatality too many,” she said. “This is $740,000 well spent in this location.”
Improvements to other areas will include addressing high risk curves, installing safety barriers, delineation and creating sealed shoulders.
“We know that sometimes just those simple measures like the wire rope barriers make things safer and we’ll do that,” Ms Pavey said.
“We are hoping in the next 12 months we’ll get that work done, it’s been earmarked as a priority from those crash statistics.”
Ms Hancock said the aim of the work was to save country lives ion the road.
“Country people present a third of the population but nearly 70 per cent of the road toll,” she said.
“That is why we are acting now to deliver on immediate safety measures for our local roads to keep everyone safe and prevent another tragic fatality.”
Safety improvements will also be made at Forest Road, Comberton and Naval College Road, Worrowing Heights.
The projects form part of the $14 million in safety improvements announced in the 2018/19 state budget.