Tag: road-safety

Local councils need more support for initiatives to encourage safe behaviour on the roads, a Victorian parliamentary committee says.

NSW’s regional road safety program is at risk of being ineffective because of lack of participation by local councils, the auditor says.

A government report rates about 2,000 kilometres of regional roads as poor or very poor.

A NSW parliamentary committee will inquire into recent changes to the NSW mobile speed camera program.

NSW councils will get $382 million to help repair, maintain and seal regional roads.

An audit has found a key Victorian road safety program was late, over-budget and poorly managed.

The Commonwealth has announced a road safety governance review, implementing one of the recommendations from a recent major inquiry.

Governments at all levels must ramp up their efforts to reduce the number of deaths and injuries on Australian roads, a leading expert says.

Australia has moved a step closer towards adopting electronic diaries for truck drivers to more easily log work and rest times, but an expert says they won’t help improve road safety.

Detailed analysis by Australia’s peak motoring body shows that nearly 90 percent of the targets in the 2011 National Road Safety Strategy will not be met. This is because governments…