The City is improving road safety for motorists and native wildlife through our Green Infrastructure Network Delivery program. The program delivers fauna movement infrastructure. This includes canopy bridges, underpasses, fauna fencing, egress (escape) devices, and signage.
As part of this program, we are improving wildlife infrastructure in the Chelsea Street environmental reserve in Kippa-Ring. This area is home to many wildlife species, including kangaroos, wallabies, birds, reptiles and frogs. The reserve is also a koala habitat and is part of the Hays Inlet habitat corridor.
It has special animal underpasses that link the reserve to internationally recognised Hays Inlet Conservation Park.
The improvements include upgrading existing fauna fencing and adding new fencing. This helps improve safety in the surrounding road network. It also reduces the risk of wildlife-vehicle accidents.
We will install several egress devices. Egress devices help native animals moving through urban areas access safe habitats. A new fence along Chelsea Street will maintain its visual amenity and have native landscaping along its frontage.
Keeping the reserve open for the public to enjoy is important to us. The project will add pedestrian gates and signs to help with this.