To hear the residents tell it, living on Windang Road can be a tough time.
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And it's not too hard to see what they mean.
Trying to reverse your car out of a driveway and onto a road where everyone’s doing 80km/h – or using the speed limit as little more than a recommendation – would have to be a hairy experience.
But it’s the speeding that they are most concerned about.
Even in the middle of the day, you can sit on 80km/h on Windang Road and watch as other cars overtake you.
Because, you know, you’re just being inconvenient by obeying the speed limit along Windang Road.
It’s a bloody drag strip, the residents say.
They say they sit at home, hearing hard-revving engines moving down the street and seemingly not paying much heed to the signs that feature the number 80 circled in red.
Sections of this road are three lanes and all but dead straight, which seems to be too great a temptation to resist for those who like to see how close to the floor they can push their accelerator pedal.
Those drivers are likely young, keen on the thrill of going fast and not really thinking much further than that.
They're certainly not thinking about what they’ll do if they pass a police car.
They’re not thinking about the chances of them dying in an accident – or even the possibility they might kill someone else.
No, their time-frame is limited by the time it takes the adrenaline to course through their veins and fade away.
The residents’ concerns have been highlighted by a spate of accidents along the road in recent weeks – not all of them involving speed.
These accidents have prompted the Centre for Road Safety and Roads and Maritime Services to jointly consider possible safety improvements in the area.
The residents would suggest a speed camera would make people think twice about speeding.
But with a red-light speed camera just a few hundred metres down the road, another one seems unlikely.
However, as they say, something needs to be done and it’s good to see the government looking to take action on Windang Road.
Because it’s a safe bet the residents would like to hear less of the squeal of brakes, the scraping of metal and the shattering of glass.