Safety barriers, rumble strips and wide centrelines will be added to roads and intersections across the Orange region under a $16 million program announced on Tuesday.
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Regional Transport and Roads minister Paul Toole said six projects in Orange and four on country roads near the city would be funded under round three of the Safer Roads program.
"We are going to see major works, minor works, improving the roads and safety for those who these roads each and every day," he said.
"We are going to see wire barriers, guard rails, we are going to see roads extended, markers, all be placed on our roads here in the local area.
"The measures we are investing in right across NSW will help to prevent the loss of 1500 lives and serious injures on our roads in the next 15 years." Mr Toole said the sites had been chosen based on the history of crashes.
Orange mayor Reg Kidd said the funding included $1.25 million in the next financial year to improve road safety in Orange.
We are going to see wire barriers, guard rails, we are going to see roads extended.
- Paul Toole, Minister for Rural Transport and Roads
He said the work would include $20,000 to upgrade the Byng and McLachlan streets roundabout.
Cr Kidd said it had a special meaning for him as it was at this intersection his aunt, Marie Kidd, was killed in a car accident in the 1950s.
Other projects will be carried out on Phoenix Mine Road, Ophir Road (two sites) and the intersections of Kearneys Drive and Matthews Avenue, Anson and Margaret streets and Hill and Casey streets.
Rural work will occur at the corner of The Escort Way and Henry Parkes Way and on the Mitchell Highway between Orange and Wellington and at East Guyong.
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