Community and business feedback
From 20 March to 9 April 2023, we asked for feedback from the community and local businesses via Engage Victoria to help inform planning and shape development of design options for the upgrade. Thank you to everyone who took the time to provide feedback. More than 700 community and business surveys were completed, and more than 60 pieces of feedback were provided on our interactive map.
This feedback has helped us understand how people use the intersection as well as views on safety, traffic flow and what we should consider in our planning. We also heard how local businesses operate and use the intersection.
The feedback also highlighted strong support for the Ballan Road Intersection Upgrade to improve safety and reduce travel times.
- 94% of community respondents and 91% of business respondents support an upgrade
- 80% of community members are supportive of the intersection potentially being converted to traffic lights in future
- 86% of community respondents have concerns with the intersection. When asked what concerns they have (multiple choice), the top responses were traffic flow (90%), safety (64%) road user behaviour (49%) and travel times (47%)
- 82% of community respondents rated traffic flow as poor or very poor, 13% said fair, and 5% said good or very good.
For further information on what we heard read the Community and Business Consultation Summary (PDF, 5.8 MB).