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centres, particularly in locations where there are high volumes of vulnerable road users. I have included the key excerpts of these documents below.
ACT Road Safety Strategy 2020-2025
Safe System
The Safe System approach provides the technical methodology and policy framework for achieving Vision Zero. The Safe System approach means that efforts must be made to manage the combined effects of the speeds at which we travel, the safety of the vehicles we use, and the level of protection provided by our roads – not only to minimise the number of crashes, but to ensure that when crashes do occur, they do not result in death or serious injury.
Traditionally the Safe System approach to road safety focuses on four pillars: safe speeds, safe roads and roadsides, safe vehicles and safe people and behaviours.
Safe Roads
The standards of the ACT’s roads, the appropriateness of speed limits and the effectiveness of the road environment are critical to road safety. Safe roads, including safe road environments need to be designed to improve safety for all users. This includes ensuring speed limits are set appropriately for the conditions of the road environment (for example, the design and function of the road) and road rules and road signage are appropriate.
ACT Road Safety Action Plan 2016-2020
ACTION ITEM – CONSIDER FURTHER EXPANSION OF 40KM/H SPEED LIMIT AREAS
JACS will undertake community consultation to determine the community demand for lower speed limits, and will consider further expansion of the reduced 40km/h speed limit areas. This could include other areas which have high numbers of cyclists, pedestrians and other vulnerable road users.
ACT Road Safety Action Plan 2020-2023
Focus Area: Speeding
The setting of appropriate speed limits that consider the road design, surrounding environment and road conditions is critical to improving road safety. In making decisions about setting speed limits, the ACT Government will apply the Safe System approach outlined in the ACT Road Safety Strategy 2020-25 and the Movement and Place framework which recognises that road environments cater to a wide range of users and often have dual purposes.
The ACT Government has implemented 40 km/h precincts in all 18 ACT group centres. A review of existing boundaries in the 5 town centres has been completed. An expansion of all existing boundaries has been designed and will be implemented in stages. The Belconnen town centre expansion was completed in 2019. Other town centres will be progressed in 2020 with planned expansion in the City, also including parts of Braddon.
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