The Australian and Victorian governments have committed $120 million in combined funding to improve safety on targeted regional roads, footpaths and cycleways through to 30 June 2025.
The Road Safety Program funding seeks to address road safety on Victorian roads across 24 sites, including four packages of works. This comprises 15 projects in regional and nine projects in urban and metropolitan areas.
Proposed safety projects in Victoria include:
- $4,745,000 for the Regional School Safety improvement package, including pedestrian and cyclist treatments.
- $2,255,000 for the Regional Speed Package, constructing static traffic controls and signage to improve critical intersections and road awareness.
This funding under the Australian Government's Road Safety Program aims to reduce the risk of death and serious injury crashes through road, footpath and cycleway project improvements.
These projects will also provide valuable road safety data that will help shape future policy and road safety for everyone using the nation's roads.
Improving road safety infrastructure, awareness and data is a priority for the Albanese Government.
We have has substantially increased Black Spot Program funding, which is progressively rising from $110 million to $150 million per year.
This is part of the Government's response to the worsening road toll which includes doubling Roads to Recovery funding from $500 million to $1 billion a year and delivering a nationally harmonised set of high-quality and timely data to inform road safety decision making.
