Urgent works needed to fix dangerous intersection on Warrnambool's Raglan Parade

Cr Richard Ziegeler told Monday's public council meeting the community's focus on pedestrian safety on the section of Raglan Parade between Hopetoun Road and King Street was a signal the city should be looking at the issue with "more urgency".

The council's infrastructure director David Leahy revealed the council was due to meet with the regional director of Regional Roads Victoria on August 26.

Mr Leahy said the intersections at Ardlie Street and Botanic Road would be on the agenda for the meeting, as well as the impact on Mortlake Road of increasing traffic from new subdivisions in the city's north.

He said the aim was to push the city's traffic issues further up the radar of Regional Roads Victoria.

Last month, Warrnambool resident Donna Monaghan called for change saying she feared there would be a pedestrian fatality if nothing was done to improve the safety of schoolchildren.

She said she had witnessed a near miss between a boy and a truck recently.

Emmanuel College principal Peter Morgan and South West Coast MP Roma Britnell have long campaigned for change there.

In May last year, Ms Britnell said she had been told the the Raglan Parade intersection with Ardlie and Hider streets had been earmarked for traffic lights but the works had not yet to be funded.

"The Department of Transport has let me know it believes the installation of traffic lights would be appropriate for the intersection," she said at the time.

"They have developed a submission which is now subject to future funding programs."

Mayor Vicki Jellie told Monday's meeting that she had stood in the middle of the intersection on Raglan Parade and watched people trying to cross the street.

"It's a very difficult area right along there," Cr Jellie said.

She said council staff had been monitoring the traffic and number of pedestrians using the area. "Our officers are absolutely onto it," she said.

"As a person myself trying to cross that road, it is difficult. It's great that we are looking at that and working together with Transport Victoria."

Cr Jellie said she was very hopeful that something would happen.

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