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SIGNS OF THE TIMES At the request of Neighbourhood Watch Area EW3, Hornsby Shire Council has erected 16 new street name signs in the Dence Park area of Epping as part of a pilot project trialling aids for navigation. In this "Navigator’s Paradise"
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| Visit our Navigator’s Paradise! Our beautiful Olympic city has a serious flaw. Although we have the best street directories in the world, they’re of little use if we don’t know the name of the street we’re on. And so often we don’t, because of the practice of not naming both streets at every intersection—a practice we believe is responsible for 90% of the frustration of Sydney drivers. We believe Australian Standard AS1742.5, which says it is not necessary to name a major street at all its intersections with minor streets, should be changed. To show the difference the "missing" signs would make, we asked Hornsby Shire Council to help us set up a pilot project in our Neighbourhood Watch area. We asked them for 16 new signs so that, except at three intersections very close to other intersections, those poles carrying only one street name sign would now have two. We also asked ourselves, and the emergency services, what other information would make navigation easier. We ended up installing
We called our pilot project a Navigator’s Paradise. An overstatement? Perhaps, as we have only supplemented existing street name signs. But imagine a new subdivision where every sign would be new and in this format. Imagine a Pacific Highway, a Parramatta Road, a Victoria Road that a driver could chart his progress along, suburb by suburb, easily monitoring at each intersection his approach to the address he wants. Hornsby Shire Council will study the results in our Navigator’s Paradise for some months before deciding whether to extend the scheme to the rest of the Shire. They have already adopted one aspect. All new street name signs within the Shire will include the suburb name under the street name. We invite you to visit our area and experience the ease of navigating our streets. We hope you will want to turn your streets into a Navigator’s Paradise too. If you do, tell your local council. Our original vision was all of Sydney a Navigator’s Paradise by the time of the Olympics. It will take longer that the two years we have left to complete this task, but we can make a very good beginning in that time. A good impression and a favour for our Olympic visitors, yes. But more importantly, a lasting gift to ourselves and our posterity. Happy navigating! Neighbourhood Watch Area EW3 is popularly known as the Dence Park area of Epping, home of the Epping Aquatic Centre. Its boundaries are Epping Road, Blaxland Road and Terrys Creek. It is the southernmost tip of Hornsby Shire and shares borders with Eastwood and Marsfield in the City of Ryde. |
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