What's happening?

The City of Canada Bay is currently investigating vehicle speeds along Byrne Avenue in Russell Lea and Drummoyne, following a pedestrian accident in late 2022 and feedback received from residents.

We would like to hear your experience of road safety on the street, so that together with our studies, Council can investigate the potential for safety improvements and traffic calming infrastructure to be put in place along Byrne Avenue.

Please share any comments with Council in one of the following ways by 5pm Sunday 30 April 2023:

• In the below form
• Email: council@canadabay.nsw.gov.au (subject: Byrne Avenue Traffic Calming)
• Phone: 9911 6555
• Mail: Locked Bag 1470, Drummoyne NSW 1470 (attn: Traffic & Transport Team)

How will my feedback be used?

• Council will review comments provided by residents about road and pedestrian safety on Byrne Avenue.
• Council may decide to develop draft concept plans based on this feedback and other speeding and traffic investigations conducted along the avenue.
• If Council prepares concept plans, the community will review the concept plans and provide feedback.
• Council will then consider the community’s feedback and make any appropriate changes ahead of the plans being taken to Council’s Traffic Committee, and then to a Council Meeting.
• Once the concept is adopted, Council will share detailed designs with the community and seek final feedback before construction.

Council staff investigated the following requests made during the consultation and have provided some information on why these requests and ideas have not been progressed.

Hump Locations

The proposed location of the traffic calming devices on Byrne Avenue is based on minimising the straight-line distance between intersections without a traffic calming device. In addition to the pedestrian accident in late 2022 there is crash data showing previous incidents in 2021 near 71 Byrne Avenue and 2019 near 38 Byrne Avenue. The location of these devices will also reduce the likelihood of similar incidents occurring in the future, lowering vehicle speeds and improving overall safety.

Pedestrian Crossing request

Warrants for a pedestrian crossing require a volume of pedestrians to cross in a particular location over three, one-hour periods on the same day. On-site observations have noted that whist pedestrians do cross Byrne Avenue, the volume of pedestrians does not meet the required threshold to warrant the installation of a crossing at this time.

Centreline markings, particularly where the road narrows near Russell Park

The existing roadway width in the narrow section of Byrne Avenue does not allow for the installation of double centreline road markings without the removal of parking on one side of Byrne Avenue in this section. Based on this, it is not proposed to proceed with linemarking in this section due to the impact on a number of residents and loss of on-street parking.

Make Byrne Avenue from The Parade to Lyons Road a one-way street south bound

The conversion of streets, particularly streets like Byrne Avenue, to one-way often leads to higher vehicle speeds due to the increased availability of the road carriageway. Additionally, there would be a flow on effect for northbound vehicles in neighbouring streets that would negatively impact traffic in the area overall. On this basis, the proposal is not supported.

No right turn at Lyons Road onto Byrne Avenue

Lyons Road is a classified State Road under the control and management of Transport for NSW. As such, Council is unable to implement changes to traffic guidance in this location. Additionally, the removal of the right turn into Byrne Avenue from Lyons Road would increase the traffic volumes on neighbouring streets which would negatively impact traffic in the area overall, on this basis a proposal to remove the right turn into Byrne Avenue is not supported at this time.