Ashfield Municipal Council, inner west Sydney

1 June 2003

Trial installations complete. See following text and Picture Gallery.

March 2003

Ashfield Council workers begin installing 76 new signs in the Lifesaver III format in the trial area. Initially, most intersections will receive one new sign.

The property numbers on the first one-third of the signs are smaller in height than the prescribed 70mm. Signs at the corner of Charlotte and Alt streets have 70mm numbers.

Property number plates appear on all signs, including those naming short dead-end streets. On three of these, conventional notation is used instead of wedge notation because these streets are numbered in a circular, cul-de-sac fashion, where No. 2 is next to No. 1 instead of opposite it. These streets have no odd and even sides. They and their displayed property numbers are:

Benalla Avenue 5-1
Rectory Avenue 1-9
Broughton Street 1-13

22 October 2002

Ashfield Municipal Council has selected the area bounded by Parramatta Road, Frederick Street, the rail line and Bland Street in the suburb of Ashfield for a six-month trial of Lifesaver signs.

Twenty-eight new signs will be added so that both streets are named at nearly all 38 intersections, and suburb name will replace the municipality name above the street name. Slip-on plates 90mm deep will be added to signs on all but dead-end streets to display 70mm property numbers in wedge notation.

With minimal change, Ashfield has converted its existing, relatively new, heritage-look sign to a Lifesaver. Their design is the foundation for Lifesaver III.