Waiting a month before deciding how to improve a Glenroy traffic trouble spot is too long, according to Albury councillor Darren Cameron.
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Albury Council has been collecting information on traffic management in the Tenbrink and Hodge Street areas for the past two to three weeks following community concerns about road safety.
Mayor Kevin Mack said on Monday the council was now analysing the data and a report would be presented to the local traffic committee in late August or early September.
But Cr Cameron said this timeline was not soon enough, given the importance of the issue.
"There will need to be an extraordinary meeting of the traffic control committee because I don't intend to wait that long for the next scheduled meeting to deal with this," he said.
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Glenroy residents have been calling for changes such as reduced speed limits in the residential area, which includes the Lots of Tots Early Learning Centre.
Resident Terry Hayden told The Border Mail there had been at least five traffic accidents in those streets since April.
Cr Mack said traffic classifiers, which recorded vehicle type, volume, vehicle speed and direction, were installed at eight sites in Glenroy late last month.
"These locations include Tenbrink Street, Ryan Road, Watson Street, Hodge Street and Wilkinson Street," he said.
"Origin-destination monitors were also installed at the intersections of Tenbrink/Hodge, Tenbrink/Wilkinson and Tenbrink/Ryan to determine vehicle-turning manoeuvres to provide crucial information for potential works."
Watson Street resident Ross Hamilton said the area could be confusing for drivers.
"Even if you are familiar with it, add in some slightly difficult conditions and then mistakes get made," he said.
"People go the wrong way down the Hodge Street intersection quite frequently; there's a little traffic island and they go on the right hand side of it rather than the left.
"I'm sure it's just an honest mistake, trying to evaluate the intersection when you come up to it at 60km/h when you're trying to pay attention to everything else.
"Really bad driver behaviour is late at night, but more the concerning thing is people who are doing 60km/h in a zone that should probably be 50km/h at peak hour."
Mr Hamilton said the council's proposed timeline sounded sensible.
"You don't want to make decisions based on poor data but at the same time you've got to get them done relatively quickly; seems like a reasonable time frame to me," he said.