City Rd safety funding to target key Southbank “pinch point”

Key points

• A $1.5 million funding commitment will improve pedestrian and cycling safety around a busy Southbank intersection on City Rd. Albert Park MP Nina Taylor and Lord Mayor Nick Reece announced the money outside Boyd Community Hub on October 18.
• Southbank3006 president David Hamilton said the immediate focus is the intersection near Boyd and the renewed Kings Way undercroft. He described the area as a hole in the bike path network, where cyclists from Kavanagh St struggle to continue towards South Melbourne.
• The commitment is contingent on the re-election of the State Labor Government.