The Australian Government announced this week that it will invest $55.1 million in funding for 216 dangerous Black Spots across New South Wales.
The investment comes under the national Black Spot Program, which targets road locations where crashes are occurring and reduces the risk of crashes through funding measures such as traffic signals and roundabouts at dangerous locations.
The Chair of the New South Wales Black Spot Consultative Panel, Calare MP John Cobb, said in a statement that this investment in NSW Black Spot projects would deliver safer roads in 86 local government areas throughout the state.
“Funding has been allocated to road locations that have been identified as high priority, with 34 fatal and 1123 injury crashes recorded at these sites,” Mr. Cobb said.
The panel that reviews priorities for the region’s Black Spot Program includes representatives from the NRMA, NSW Federation of P&C Associations, the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia, NSW Police and state and local government.
The Australian Government has committed $500 million to the Black Spot Program from 2014–15 to 2018–19, including an additional $200 million over two years from 2015–16 to improve road safety across the nation.