Killing speed: road improvements

One of the ways to protect vulnerable road users is through road improvements. The ACT Government endeavours to make roads safer. This is the way it has been done up until now.

As a cyclist, I would like to see a lot more priority crossings, particularly on all Principal / Main Community Routes, also known as CBR Cycleways. Priority crossings are recommended in the Active Travel Facilities Design: Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05.

Principal Community Route (PCR) –A subset of Main Community Routes (MCR) that form direct links between town centres. There are routes that are to include route labels and branding.

Active Travel Facilities Design: Municipal Infrastructure Standards 05 (MIS05) (ACT Government, April 2019)

Treatments

Here are some of the ways (treatments) ACT roads are being made safer. We have often discussed the problem with the high speed limits in the ACT.

• speed cushion
• pedestrian refuge
• right turn pocket
• roundabout
• chicane
• hazard sign
• line marking
• pedestrian signage
• rumble strips
• line marking improvements
• pedestrian crossing

Where is what

Figure 1: Wanniassa. Residential street improvements, ACT Government, February 2019

Figure 2: Fadden Residential street improvements, ACT Government, February 2019

Figure 3: Giralang Kaleen Residential street improvements, ACT Government, February 2019

Figure 4: Holt Residential street improvements, ACT Government, February 2019

Figure 5: Evatt Residential street improvements, ACT Government, February 2019

Figure 6: Chisholm Richardson Residential street improvements, ACT Government, February 2019

Figure 7: Charnwood Residential street improvements, ACT Government

Figure 8: Chapman Fisher Residential street improvements, ACT Government, February 2019