A community rally will be held today in Bulimba to pressure the council to install traffic lights at Riding Road after two schoolgirls were injured while crossing.
Morningside Councillor Kara Cook said, “the girls are among hundreds of students at the nearby Morningside State School who use the crossing regularly. It’s also heavily used by adults and children to access Hawthorne Park”.
Locals have been fighting to install traffic lights at the intersection for 14 years with at least six serious pedestrian crashes and a fatality in recent years.
Councill Cook has raised a second petition with more than 350 signatures.