East Perth train station—Road safety
Petition
Hon Tim Clifford (1:04 pm): I present an e-petition containing 181 signatures couched in the following terms:
To the President and Members of the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia in Parliament assembled. We the undersigned ...
... are concerned about the safety of pedestrians who cross East Parade, East Perth, at the East Perth Train Station. We therefore ask the Legislative Council to recommend that safe road crossing infrastructure is installed as soon as possible on East Parade at the East Perth Train Station. East Parade is a dual carriageway, with two lanes of traffic in each carriageway. It is a major arterial road in to and out of the Perth CBD and provides access to the metropolitan freeway system, via the Graham Farmer Freeway. With the increase in population and more freeway extensions, it is an increasingly busy road. Similarly, the East Perth Train Station is increasingly busy, with more and more passengers embarking and disembarking from three suburban train lines (Midland, Airport and Ellenbrook), and intra (Avonlink, Merredinlink and the Prospector) and inter state (Indian Pacific) trains and regional buses from the adjacent Westrail Centre. Increasing numbers of people come to the area and cross this road to access some of Perth's key attractions, including football and concerts at Optus Stadium, Perth Festival events at the East Perth Power Station, the upcoming Perth Entertainment and Sporting Precinct, and the Swan River and parklands. In addition, the local residential population is growing as the result of new State Government housing developments and higher density living. With this burgeoning of traffic and pedestrian numbers, crossing East Parade at the East Perth Train Station is becoming more hazardous—we just want to cross East Parade safely.
And your petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray.
(See paper 445.)
