KING Edward Avenue could become a dumping ground once closed to Anderson Road, according to a worried Albion resident.
The Avenue will be turned into a cul-de-sac as part of works that will route Anderson Road beneath the Bendigo and Sydenham rail line.
The resident, who asked not to be named, said the areas in front of the Avenue’s units were already prone to dumping.
“When you don’t have traffic passing along there any more, it will just be a magnet for dumping,” he said.
The Weekly has reported dumping is already impacting on Brimbank sites such as railway stations, car parks and charities.
Illegal dumping costs the council more than $550,000 a year.
The resident said the high cost of legally dumping items such as mattresses put people off doing the right thing.
Brimbank Council trucks routinely collected dumped items and it wasn’t unusual to see them in the area at least three times a week, he said.
General manager infrastructure and environment Paul Younis said King Edward Avenue was patrolled weekly as part of the council’s cleansing program.
“To date council has only received one request this year to remove dumped rubbish from King Edward Ave,” he said.
He added that the Regional Rail Link would improve Sunshine station, provide extra trains along the Sydenham and Deer Park rail corridors and help avoid “unacceptable traffic delays” for more than 20,000 road users per day.
“However, there will be some impacts from the project, which include changes to local traffic access and pedestrian connectivity from Albion to Sunshine, localised impacts on the HV McKay Gardens and traffic changes around Sunshine for two years during the project’s construction.”
