Three locations in Blayney shire have been identified as having a major speeding problem with one in seven drivers breaking the speed limit by 15 kmh or more.
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Naylor Street in Carcoar, Forest Reefs Road and Mandurama Road have each been named as needing urgent action.
Chair of the Blayney Shire Council Traffic Committee councillor Bruce Reynolds said that new signage in Carcoar would be the first step in improving safety in the village.
"There is a speeding issue with cars coming down from either Mount McDonald Road or Felltimber Road and then passing the new play area that council is building," he said.
"We're firstly going to be putting up larger speed limit signs on these two roads, some before the highway overpass and a repeater on Naylor Street."
If those measures don't have an impact on the speeding figures, Cr Reynolds said that council would need to look at something more dramatic.
"We will need to look at some kind of traffic calming devices such as speed humps," he said.
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Drivers travelling 20 kmh or more over the limit along Forest Reef's Road are attracting the attention of police after council revealed data from a speed monitoring station showing the high level of breaches.
"The speed limit on this road is 80 kmh, however some cars were logged at close to 100," Cr Reynolds said.
The section of 50 kmh road before Mandurama on the Neville to Mandurama road has also been identified as a major speeding zone.
Mark Logan
Started working in newspapers in the 1990's in the darkroom of the Pastoral Times in Deniliquin before moving to Millthorpe in 2003. Soon after arriving I started as a photographer at the CWD. Now a journalist at the Blayney Chronicle.
Started working in newspapers in the 1990's in the darkroom of the Pastoral Times in Deniliquin before moving to Millthorpe in 2003. Soon after arriving I started as a photographer at the CWD. Now a journalist at the Blayney Chronicle.
