“I’ve seen cars speeding along this road, going at more than 60km an hour, buses especially speed around the Coronation Drive corner … it is very dangerous,” he said.

“People drive on the wrong side of the road all the time so they can drive into the back of Orana Mall.

“They even drive on the footpath outside the service station so they can get into the medical centre.”

Mr Holmes watched council workers extend the current refuge island near Coronation Drive on Friday.

“What they are doing isn’t going to stop people driving on the wrong side of the road, it just makes it further for them to drive,” he said.

“I’ve seen delivery trucks drive on the wrong side of the road so they could turn into the service vehicle driveway.”

He said elderly Orana Gardens residents regularly walked across the busy road to shop at the service station, go to the mall and visit the medical centre.

“We have more than a dozen regular customers from Orana Gardens who walk over to the station at least once a day. They come here to get their newspapers, milk and bread,” he said.

“Even more of them walk past the station every day to go to the medical centre.

“The same people walk past three or four times a week and they all go to the medical centre.

“There is a huge retirement village and nursing home on one side of the road and a mall and medical centre on the other. Of course elderly people will be crossing the road and they deserve to be safe.”

Mr Holmes said a marked zebra crossing would be beneficial for the businesses on the opposite side of the road to the retirement village.

“It would mean more elderly people could cross the road without worrying … I’m sure more would walk over here if there was a zebra crossing.”

keely.bell@ruralpres s.com