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Business View Australia - November-December 2015
treatments that have been proven
to lower the speed at which most
people drive. The yearly budget
allocation for traffic management
projects is about $200,000.
Council has a policy of involving the
local community to identify traffic-
related problems and suggest
solutions. Residents, ratepayers and
other stakeholders can give their
views on how a particular issue can
be tackled. A Traffic Study Group
comprised of Councillors, Council’s
traffic engineers and independent
traffic
consultants
consider
suggestions made to them.
Subsequently, the Traffic Study Group
prepares a Traffic Management Plan
for Council’s consideration. This plan
identifies problemareas and suggests
solutions. In the normal course,
traffic management objectives are
achieved by taking a number of steps,
including the installation of road
humps, modifications to the kerb to
slow traffic or by implementing one-
way streets or turn bans.
Council is careful to implement
solutions on an area-wide basis
so that one street’s traffic issues
are not passed onto neighbouring
streets.