A notorious Tamworth black spot will be cleared up after New England MP Barnaby Joyce yesterday announced a $100,000 investment to upgrade the Taminda intersection.
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The Jewry-Lockheed street intersection, adjacent to Bunnings, has been the scene of two accidents since 2016.
Four people were injured in the collisions.
Standing next to the congested road yesterday, Mr Joyce announced the government would invest $100,000 into the intersection to bring that number down.
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"The reason this is a black spot is because people get annoyed and they push their luck," he said.
The funding announcement follows last year's duplication of the Jewry street bridge. The Taminda road is one of the most congested in Tamworth.
"As we've done such a good job there, our traffic's building up here."
But won't the extra upgrade just shift traffic around again?
"And then we'll just have to take the next step," Mr Joyce said.
Government has previously invested half a million dollars at Duri-Dungowan road, and Werris Creek Road and $800,000 at the intersection of Moore Creek Road and Browns Lane, all in Tamworth.
The Black Spot program targets road locations with a history of crashes for safety upgrades like lighting, improved signage or either traffic lights or roundabouts.
Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said the program will reduce deaths and serious injuries by about 30 per cent at each of the 147 pinch points that have been identified.
According to statistics from Transport for NSW cars collided at the Jewry street intersection in 2016 and 2018. Both times two people were left seriously injured.
