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LIST OF RELEVANT RECOMMENDATIONS
FROM THE REPORT OF THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE'S
INQUIRY INTO SPEED LIMITS IN VICTORIA
(November 1991)
The Committee recommends that:
- The Minister for Transport commission the Monash University Accident Research
Centre to carry out a comprehensive study of the relationship between speed
and crash involvement in Victoria.
- In order to achieve credible speed limits, a greater emphasis should be
given to the 85th percentile speed when setting speed zones with VLIMITS.
- VicRoads investigate methods of educating road users about the reasons
for speed zoning.
- VicRoads include the condition of a road surface in the VLIMITS program.
- VicRoads establish guidelines for interpretation of VLIMITS' advice.
- VicRoads complete its study comparing crash rates on freeways and expressways
which had speed limits of 110 km/h. This is to be completed by 30 June 1992.
- Following this study the Road Safety Co-ordinating Council examine the
suitability of those sections of freeways and expressways where the 110 km/h
speed limit may safely be applied.
- The speed limit on rural arterial roads remain at 100 km/h.
- Unsealed rural arterial roads be speed zoned according to road conditions.
- To achieve national uniformity, 75 km/h speed zones be phased out and replaced
with speed limits based on 10 km/h increments.
- The Minister for Transport amend the Road Safety (Traffic) Regulations
to set the speed limit for residential streets at 40 km/h.
- The Minister for Transport amend the Road Safety (Traffic) Regulations
to enable local government in conjunction with VicRoads to nominate residential
streets in which other speed limits will apply.
- The Minister for Transport -
- set school speed zones at 40 km/h in the vicinity of schools;
except where a school is on a highway or arterial road and the current
speed zone is higher than 60 km/h, the school speed zone should be
less than the speed limit.
- designate the area of the school speed zone as appropriate in consultation
with local authorities.
- in consultation with the school, the regional road safety council and
the municipality, set the times and locations at which the school speed
zones will operate.
- The Minister for Transport does not introduce variable speed limits based
on adverse weather conditions until the technology is further developed, and
the existing offence of Dangerous Driving be used by police where circumstances
warrant it.
