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We’ve finished our review of the Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan 2025 to 2034.
The updated strategy was adopted at the Council meeting on 27 May 2025 and is in line with the national and state road safety strategies.
Community consultation
Between 20 January and 21 February 2025, we invited you to provide feedback on the proposed Strategy and Action Plan.
Here's a snapshot of what 127 people told us through our online survey:
- More clarification is required around the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders in relation road safety, and how we and the stakeholders would work together around road safety education and enforcement of road rules.
- You support infrastructure improvements; but have some concerns about how and where cycling infrastructure will be provided.
- Safety in our activity centres is important to you.
- You’d like us to focus on older adults, who are overly represented in fatal and serious injury crashes.
- You are concerned about the level of road maintenance and its implication on road safety and crash risks.
Your feedback was generally positive, however, we made some adjustments to the wording of the action plan to better reflect your priorities and ensure alignment with other Council strategies.
We also added several new actions, including:
- advocacy to the State Government for upgrades to key arterial roads
- a review of parking restrictions to enhance road safety where needed
- exploration of opportunities involving emerging transport technologies.
- placing a greater emphasis on inclusion to ensure the strategy addresses the needs of all road users.
The adopted Road Safety Strategy
The strategy will remain a living, adaptable document designed to guide our work over the next 10 years. It will continue to evolve with emerging technologies, best practices, and alignment with state and national frameworks.
You can view the adopted Strategy on our website at manningham.vic.gov.au/road-safety-strategy
For more information or questions
Contact us on 9840 9333 or at manningham@manningham.vic.gov.au.
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Thank you for taking part in our recent community consultation and providing your feedback on the Draft Road Safety Strategy.
This consultation closed on Friday 21 February 2025.
We'll update you on the consultation outcomes once we've reviewed and evaluated all submissions to the online survey.
If you have any questions about this project, call us on 9840 9333 or email manningham@manningham.vic.gov.au.
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Road improvements, targeted education and speed zone reviews are proposed as key priorities in our draft Road Safety Strategy 2025-2035.
We’re seeking your feedback on the draft strategy and action plan to ensure it accurately reflects community needs and concerns.
The strategy will serve as our roadmap for enhancing road safety and reducing traffic-related accidents, injuries and fatalities over the next decade.
It was informed by feedback from last year’s community consultation, local road safety data and input from road safety partners. It also aligns with State and Federal strategies.
Key proposed actions include:
- road safety audits in high-risk areas
- infrastructure upgrades
- speed limit reviews
- continual road user education
- updates to the Manningham Walking and Cycling Strategy
Complete our survey before Friday, 21 February.
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The Community Survey closed on Monday 17 June. We received 217 responses, and we thank everyone for taking the time to complete the survey.
We will now review the survey results and input from key road safety partners (Victorian Police, Department of Transport and Planning etc) and interested community groups.
We'll prepare the draft Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan, which will be considered by Council in August 2024.
Following the above, we anticipate that the draft Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan will be released for exhibition and public comments between September and October 2024.
We aim to finalise the Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan in early 2025 for Council adoption.
If you have any questions about this project, call us on 9840 9333 or email manningham@manningham.vic.gov.au.
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Understanding the lived experiences of our residents will be a crucial step to improving road safety in Manningham.
We're seeking your input on road safety issues to inform the development of its new 10-year Road Safety Strategy.
We'll use this feedback, along with the latest crash and incident data and feedback from Victoria Police and other road safety partners, to develop the strategy.
Since implementing the previous Road Safety Strategy in 2010, we've seen a downward trend in crash incidents. However, between 2017 and 2023, there were still 409 serious injuries and 11 fatalities on Manningham roads.
"We're striving for vision zero in Manningham, which means nobody is seriously injured or killed on our roads. Because one is one too many," said our Mayor, Councillor Carli Lange.
"We're taking a data-driven approach to road safety. Hearing from our community about their lived experiences is critical to ensure we can draw a bigger picture and help people feel safe on our roads."
Manningham's previous Road Safety Strategy delivered improvements to infrastructure through the Manningham Bicycle Strategy and roads program. It also supported the ongoing implementation of awareness and behavioural programs such as the Manningham-Whitehorse L2P program and Wise Driver program.
The new strategy will provide a framework and action plan that aligns with the Victorian and National Road Safety Strategies 2021-2030 and adopt Safe System principles to reduce crashes, particularly those involving pedestrians and cyclists. It will consider infrastructure maintenance and improvements, advocacy to state and federal governments, and road safety education and outreach programs.
The Transport Accident Commission is funding the strategy renewal under its Local Government Grant Program.
This survey will be open until 5.00pm on Monday, 17 June.
We will present the draft strategy for consultation via public exhibition later this year.
For more information on the Manningham Road Safety Strategy 2025-2034, visit the Your Say page.
