THE speed limit of a controversial section of Bourke Street will be raised by 10 kilometres per hour.
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The state government's decision to raise the limit from 50km/h to 60km/h in the next fortnight follows speeding drivers generating more than half a million dollars in speeding fines from the small stretch running parallel to Wagga Showground in six months alone.
The move, which will provide consistency, follows a year-long safety trial.
Bourke Street has proven an ongoing problem, with a mobile speed camera snapping up more than $500,000 from October to March in 2012, with 65 per cent of the penalty notices issued for drivers going slower than 60km/h.
"Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) will increase the 50 km/h limit to 60 km/h in the next fortnight to provide a consistent 60 km/h speed limit on Bourke Street from north of Urana Street to Athol Street," an RMS spokeswoman said.
"The NSW Government has provided $2000 toward the project.
"The speed limit change follows the completion of a $40,000 NSW government blackspot funded project completed in June to install a median and a pedestrian refuge on Bourke Street."
The news has been welcomed by Wagga motorists, including Roz Bradley, after she was fined more than $200 and had points stripped for speeding on the 50km/h strip of Bourke Street.
"I think it's a main arterial road and probably does need to be 60km/h," she said.
"I also think there's too many different speed zones along the road."
She noted a motorist travelling to the city from Lake Albert in one five-minute journey could encounter four different speed zones.
Member for Wagga Daryl Maguire considered the soon to be 60km/h stretch of Bourke Street to be an anomoly in an otherwise 50km/h blanket limit across Australian cities unless otherwise signposted.
"In the six years to 2012 there were six recorded crashes with six people injured," he said.
"Since the completion of the safety improvement project there have been no recorded crashes at this location."
A Wagga City Council spokesman confirmed the RMS had discussed the proposed changes to speed limits with them, but the decision to raise or lower speed limits lied with the RMS.
Members of the community can register on the Safer Roads NSW website to receive updates about changes to permanent speed limits in their nominated area and have a say on speed limits.