Kent and Dianne McNab, who live near the corner, have been petitioning council to improve the intersection after a car crash last year saw a vehicle hurtling into the fence of Assumption School just half an hour after children were walking on the path to go into class.

Since they raised the issue they have collected in excess of 3000 signatures of support, petitioning council to upgrade the intersection, which they say is dangerous.

Mr Triming, chair of the Bathurst Regional Access Committee, said the committee had put its support behind the push after being given an address by the McNabs.

He said originally he didn’t think it was a matter for the committee until Mr McNab brought to his attention the considerable access issues at the intersection for those with a disability.

“The committee as a whole agreed to support the matter by writing to council,” he said.

Among the many issues raised by Bathurst Regional Access Committee in the letter to council are laybacks in the gutter which are too narrow and have a large lip on the utter edge, no sealed footpaths and no layback to get off the road for wheelchairs alighting from the taxi rank.

Other concerns include the layback which leads to Lambert Street has nowhere for a wheelchair to go, as there is no break in the centre island, and no layback to get off the road for wheelchairs and prams on one side of the corner.

Mr Triming said there were many issues with the intersection that relate to access.

“The ramp at Mitre Street doesn’t comply with Australian standards for laybacks, and if you cross the road in a wheelchair, when you get to the other side there’s nowhere to go.”

Mr Triming said it left people in wheelchairs, and also those pushing prams, with nowhere to go other than along the road, which he said was dangerous, given the nature of the intersection.

He said if he had to cross Lambert Street during the week he had to go an extra block down to do so safely.