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Paper Title:
Urban Street Speed Strategy
- Cessnock City Council
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Authors:
Jennifer Andrews
Abstract:
The need to improve the
complience of urban speed limits has been a major concern to our
community. Since the implementation of the 50 kph Urban Speed Limit
throughout Cessnock City LGA, community concerns have increased
and police resources have been unacceptably stretched attempting
to enforce the new limits.
There was also a view
that there was a need to better utilise the available resources
of both police and Council in a more coordinated approach so as
to maximise results and achieve significant outcomes.
The Urban Street Speed
Strategy was developed as an education and enforcement based program
incorporating a collaborative approach to speed management throughout
urban areas utilising Council resources and Police Co-operation.
It was intended to adopt
this new approach to 6 streets that would be identified through
examining councils complaints register, crash data, traffic information,
police concerns / Traffic Infringement Notices offences. Streets
were also evaluated on their road environment and their amenability
to engineering solutions.
The Urban Street Speed
Strategy was developed.
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