We are residents of Nimmo Street, Middle Park and write to you in the hope that we can get some traction to get Port Phillip Council to remedy the dangerous intersection of Nimmo Street and Richardson Street, Middle Park.    We write to you on behalf of the neighbours in the immediate vicinity of this intersection.

We have both lived in Nimmo street for the past 20 years and cannot remember a year when this intersection did not have a serious accident.

We have contacted Port Phillip Council on numerous occasions, to tell them of accidents that have occurred at this intersection and that a roundabout needs to be installed before there is a fatality.  It is a perilous intersection and our pleas to the Council to make safe has simply fallen on deaf ears.

The Council did install rubber road humps to curb the constant accidents at this intersection. However, they proved of no value and most drivers just drove around them.

After a period of trialling the rubber road humps, we contacted the Council yet again to take some effective action.  They installed (at some expense), permanent bitumen humps. The permanent bitumen humps clearly have not worked – there was an accident in February of this year.

Rob Gauci had a meeting with a Transport Engineer of the Council in the beginning of April this year.   Rob was advised by the Transport Engineer that installing a roundabout was out of the question because it would disrupt the path of cyclists.  Rob then suggested that, at a minimum, the Council could replace the current Give Way sign with a Stop sign to which they responded: “There are no geometric road-related conditions or sight-line issues at this intersection that would warrant this change”. (attached is the related correspondence from the Council). Rob finally queried the Transport Engineer, if the Council was waiting for a fatality to occur before they will do anything decisive and effective to address the lack of safety at this intersection. Unsurprisingly, he refused to comment.

Attached are some photos of accidents sent to Council from 2019-24 as evidence that this intersection has safety issues.