The council has applied for $3,125,000 to complete 12 projects at intersections and stretches of road with a history of serious injury crashes from 2011-2016. 

Among the work will be four roundabouts located at the intersections of Anson and Warrendine streets, Hill Street and Matthews Avenue, Woodward and Wentworth streets and McLachlan and March streets. 

City of Orange Traffic Committee chairman and councillor Russell Turner said a $300,000 roundabout at Anson and Warrendine streets would address confusion, and two crashes, at the awkward intersection, which is bounded by Moulder Park and Bissy’s Cafe. 

“The council considered closing Warrendine Street off, but that wasn’t acceptable,” he said.

The intersection of Hill Street and Matthews Avenue currently has give way signs and a roundabout is also proposed at a cost of $600,000 to address the area’s previous five crashes. 

“It’s a wide intersection with an increasing amount of traffic to the developments in the north,” Cr Turner said.

“We’ve concentrated on making Hill Street the main thoroughfare to the north, rather than Anson Street.”

Cr Turner said the $550,000 roundabout proposed for the intersection of Woodward and Wentworth streets, with six crashes, would add to the Moulder Street roundabout built earlier this year. 

“There’s a turning lane into Woodward Street that’s always been confusing and with the expected traffic in Wentworth Street when the southern distributor reaches that far, it would be an increased blackspot, above what it is at the moment,” he said.

The intersection of McLachlan and March streets has experienced six crashes and a roundabout would cost $370,000. 

Other projects include moving give way signs to improve sight distances at the intersections of Peisley and Phillip Streets and Lords Place and Franklin Road, and adding sheltered turning lanes at the intersection of Leeds Parade and Margaret Street.

Forest Road would receive $600,000-worth of work to lower the crest at Hiney Road and widen it between Spring Terrace and Gander Road. 

Non-skid seals have also been earmarked for Endsleigh Avenue.