Page 411 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 19 February 2019
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April 2018 the review of the ACT graduated licensing scheme commenced with community consultation. Significant feedback was received, which influenced the design of a final model that was published for further feedback in October 2018.
National Road Safety Week was launched in Canberra on 30 April 2018, in partnership with the Canberra Raiders, including a live game sponsored by the ACT government. There was additional promotion by Canberra Raiders social media and bus-back advertising featuring well-known players alongside emergency services workers and ACT Policing members wearing yellow ribbons in support of road safety.
As in previous years, a number of prominent buildings around Canberra were illuminated in yellow for the week. These included the National Carillon, Kings Avenue overpass over Parkes Way, Old Parliament House, Canberra International Airport, the Royal Australian Mint, Questacon, Malcolm Fraser Bridge and the Ian Potter Foundation building.
The third annual ACT road safety fund grant round received 16 applications last year, with eight projects sharing in nearly $280,000. The funding goes toward initiatives that support the advancement of road safety research, education and road trauma prevention. The majority of funding this year went to projects supporting the safety of vulnerable road users.
In May 2018 Access Canberra successfully implemented a new traffic camera adjudication system that provides numerous road safety, customer service and operational benefits. The system replaces one that was almost 20 years old, and adjudication staff are able to verify images against vehicle registration records and create infringement files more efficiently. To further assist motorists to manage infringement notices, images and videos regarding an offence are now available online. To protect privacy the vehicle operator is provided with an image reference number that must be used in order to view the images.
The permanent inclusion of motorcycle lane filtering laws was announced on 9 October 2018, following the results of an evaluation of the trial by the Sunshine Coast university. The original trial conditions were expanded to include that motorcycle lane filtering not be permitted in any 40-kilometre an hour speed zone. The trial exclusion was specific only to roadworks and school zones.
On 25 October 2018 I tabled the evaluation of the safer cycling reforms trial and announced that the conditions would be included permanently in ACT road rules. The requirements are for drivers to maintain an overtaking distance of at least one metre when passing a cyclist at 60 kilometres an hour or less, and when driving at a speed over 60 kilometres an hour the minimum distance increases to 1.5 metres. The reforms also included conditions allowing cyclists to ride across pedestrian crossings in a safe manner.
Through one of the grants that will further improve road user understanding of the safer cycling reforms, Pedal Power received funding to produce minimum passing distance mats which give a visual demonstration of the distance motorists are require to provide when overtaking cyclists.
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