{"id":5069,"date":"2020-02-11T07:25:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2020-02-11T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:25:44","slug":"delivering-safer-roads-for-local-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/delivering-safer-roads-for-local-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"DELIVERING SAFER ROADS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safety barriers, rumble strips and wide centrelines will be rolled out across NSW\u2019s road network as part of a record $822 million investment into road safety infrastructure upgrades through the Safer Roads Program.<br \/>\nMinister for Regional Transport and Roads Paul Toole said round three of the program would see $258 million invested into 383 projects next financial year.<br \/>\n\u201cThese are projects designed to save lives. We are committed to reducing the state\u2019s road toll and the measures we are investing in will prevent the loss of more than 1500 lives and serious injuries on our roads over 15 years,\u201d Mr Toole said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe know targeted projects can make a real difference to local communities in both the city and the bush.<br \/>\n\u201cThis investment will see $217 million injected into 285 regional projects through Saving Lives on Country Roads, and $41 million into 98 projects through Liveable and Safe Urban Communities for metropolitan NSW.\u201d<br \/>\nRound three of the Safer Roads Program will deliver:<br \/>\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>More than 230 kilometres of safety barriers<\/strong>, which absorb impact forces and protect vehicle occupants, reducing the severity of head-on and run-off-road crashes by up to 95 per cent.<br \/>\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>2,150 kilometres of rumble strips<\/strong>\u00a0to alert motorists they are departing from their lane, reducing the likelihood of this crash type by up to 25 per cent.<br \/>\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Almost 1,000 kilometres of wide centreline<\/strong>\u00a0providing a greater distance for drivers to recover from lane departure, reducing the likelihood of head-on crashes by up to 50 per cent and run-off-road crashes by up to 25 per cent.<br \/>\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Almost 1,500 high-risk rural curve improvements<\/strong>\u00a0including shoulder sealing, safety barriers, rumble strips, signage upgrades and line-marking upgrades.<br \/>\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>More than 100 urban intersection improvement projects<\/strong>\u00a0including roundabouts and traffic signal upgrades.<br \/>\nMr Toole said the Safer Roads Program was a five-year program, with more than $300 million already spent over the last two years to deliver 113 kilometres of barriers, 3,000 kilometres of rumble strips and 2,800 kilometres of wide centreline across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safety barriers, rumble strips and wide centrelines will be rolled out across NSW\u2019s road network as part of a record $822 million investment into road safety infrastructure upgrades through the Safer Roads Program. Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Paul Toole said round three of the program would see $258 million invested into 383 projects &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/delivering-safer-roads-for-local-communities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DELIVERING SAFER ROADS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}