Macquarie Park next door to NSW’s worst intersection for school zone speeding

New data has identified NSW’s worst intersection for school zone speeding, and it’s right on the edge of Macquarie Park.

Located on Lane Cove Road in North Ryde, the school zone intersection saw more than 5,255 drivers break the speed limit while passing through the lights in the last 10 months.

The North Ryde intersection represents more than a third of the 15,195 cases of drivers caught speeding at the 12 worst school zone intersections State-wide - and that’s only those caught on camera.

Now, road safety experts have taken to the pages of Sydney’s Daily Telegraph to demand greater enforcement of road rules by police.

NRMA spokesman Peter Khoury said there was no excuse for running red lights in school zones:

“Going through a red light and speeding is particularly dangerous, it’s like playing Russian roulette,” he said.

“If that’s unacceptable, doing it in a school zone is absolutely intolerable. We need people to slow down”

The need to standardise speed limits and improve conditions for people walking across Macquarie Park was identified by the NSW Government as a priority in their recent 20-year masterplan for Macquarie Park.

That plan calls to harmonise vehicle speeds across the Park, and phase traffic lights to favour people walking.

Speed limits on Macquarie Park’s busy Herring Road were already successfully reduced from 60km/h to 50km/h in 2020, between Epping Road and Talavera Road. This mirrors the 50km/h speed limit found on both Talavera and Waterloo Roads.

However, speeds on Lane Cove Road are as high as 70km/h - including outside busy Macquarie Park Metro station.

Extensive re-modelling works to upgrade the intersection of Waterloo and Lane Cove Roads are currently underway, and may include night works and temporary speed limits.

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