Perth Voice Interactive

WITH school holidays here, warm weather looming and Hyde Park’s water playground about to be re-populated by youngsters, Vincent council will have another go at trying to convince Main Roads to slow speeds on nearby Vincent Street.

Drivers often zoom down the narrow 60kph street, cars flanked either side making for a perilous gauntlet if kids dart out.

The council wants a lower speed but back in April Main Roads refused, because it’s not a retail/commercial/alfresco zone and claiming there aren’t enough pedestrians to justify a lower speed.

Cr Josh Topelberg wants to give it another go, asking council staff to get onto Main Roads again “due to the significant increase in patronage at Hyde Park during summer and in particular young children using the water playground”.

Back in March the council signed off on a city-wide survey to see if the community would be up for having every local street in Vincent reduced to 40kph.

A $200,000 trial was planned to start rolling the second half of this year but the council doesn’t have the cash to get it started.