RESIDENTS of Anita Street at Redland Bay are again ramping up their campaign for lights after a man died 500m from the busy Cleveland-Redland Bay Road intersection this month.
Anita Street spokeswoman Leann Lillicrap said residents' concerns about dangers on the stretch of road were amplified after the man's death.
She said many felt they had been lied to after a 2011 state government promise for $1.1 million lights was scrapped at the 2012 election.
Ms Lillicrap said the former Labor government promised residents the funds after a community meeting at Victoria Point State High School in June 2011.
But less than two years later and after a change in state government, the plans for lights were scrapped and the allocated state funds withdrawn.
Redlands MP Peter Dowling said he had put his case forward for upgrades to Cleveland-Redland Bay Road and lights at Anita Street during pre-budget planning meetings.
"It has all changed," he said. "We were promised $1 million but traffic lights cost infinitely more than that.
"If we were to put in lights there, we would cause traffic congestion all the way to Logan Hyperdome, unless there are synchronised lights on Cleveland-Redland Bay Road."
Mr Dowling said the lights could not proceed until a truck depot driveway opposite Anita Street was moved and Cleveland-Redland Bay Road reconfigured into a four-lane, dual carriageway.
He said the state was working with developers at Victoria Point and Thornlands to plan upgrades to the road near proposed housing developments but none to widen the entire road.
In May 2012, Main Roads told Mr Dowling it would cost $XXXX to reconfigure the road between Boundary Street and Anita Street including Double Jump Road, where the 48-year-old man died, after getting out of his car to look at a snake.
