Logan City Council has outlined a bold plan to promote road safety and encourage better driving practices.
The Road Safety Strategy for Logan 2022 – 2026 was tabled before Council this week.
The new five year strategy, considers Logan’s latest crash trends, identifies current road safety issues, incorporates previous learnings and is accompanied by an 36 part action plan to be delivered in co-operation with Council’s road safety partners and stakeholders.
It has seven key considerations including education, encouragement and advocacy, crash Investigation and prevention, pedestrian enabling facilities, on and off-road cycle facilities, speed management measures, focus on engineering treatments, as well as monitoring and reporting.
Mayor Darren Power says the strategy reflects Council’s commitment to improving road safety across the City of Logan.
“Our Road Safety Strategy for Logan 2022 – 2026 is a way forward to guide our community in reducing serious road trauma and make our great city a safer place to live and travel.
“Serious road accidents have a lasting impact on any community, however the good news is a lot of casualties can be prevented.
“The economic, social and emotional costs of serious road trauma are far reaching and enduring.
“We know that by working collaboratively improvements can be made to address road safety.
“This strategy reflects Council’s strong partnership with a wide range of experts on how we can improve road safety across the City of Logan.
It outlines our priorities to meet the challenging needs for education, enforcement, and community engagement around road safety.”
Council’s strategy has been developed with the involvement of major road safety partners, including Queensland Police Service (QPS), Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), Metro South Health (QH), Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ) and Transurban.
The strategy will be brought to next week’s Ordinary Meeting of Council for endorsement.
If endorsed, the launch of the strategy is set to coincide with National Road Safety Week and Fatality Free Friday.
