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Safe System Snippet 430: The Importance of Queue Visibility

Safe System Snippet 430: The Importance of Queue Visibility

In this video, it’s hard to tell exactly what’s happened. Let’s give the driver the benefit of the doubt and hypothesise that they identified the queuing vehicles too late and made a choice to avoid a rear-end collision with the queue.  This scenario highlights an...

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Safe System Snippet 426: : T-Intersections

Safe System Snippet 426: : T-Intersections

Did you know that there’s no legal requirement to install a Give Way sign at a T-intersection? According to the Road Rules, vehicles on the terminating road are already required to give way to traffic on the through road (includes garbage bins it seems 😂). This means...

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Safe System Snippet 424:  Attaching things to barriers

Safe System Snippet 424: Attaching things to barriers

In three recent road safety audits, we’ve observed items attached to barrier systems that are not part of the system. While some, like the plastic guidepost contraption, are unlikely to affect the barrier's functionality, it’s not considered good practice....

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Safe System Snippet 421: Average pedestrian walking speed

Safe System Snippet 421: Average pedestrian walking speed

The AGRD Part 4A discusses an ‘average walking speed of 1.2 m/s’ and further acknowledges that ‘there are pedestrians who may walk at different rates and designers need to consider the types of pedestrians and their likely walking speeds’.  The TMR supplement expands...

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Case study: Yarraville polka dots

Case study: Yarraville polka dots

Street/road art is becoming more and more popular. But what are the risks, and how can they be assessed?   In 2021, Maribyrnong City Council painted colourful polka dots of varying sizes on roads in Yarraville Village to catch the eye of drivers and encourage them to...

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Case study: Horsham Bicycle and Shared Paths Plan

Case study: Horsham Bicycle and Shared Paths Plan

Would you ride a bike to work if the journey was on flat terrain, less than 5 kilometres, and in a moderate climate?   Sounds ideal, right?  That’s the situation for most people living in Horsham, in Victoria’s west, yet just 1% of Horsham workers cycled to work in...

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Safe System Snippet 417: Sight distance height pedestrians

Safe System Snippet 417: Sight distance height pedestrians

While this near miss involves a driver that is incorrectly and inappropriately using the intersection, it does highlight one of the additional risks for those trying to navigate the road network in a wheelchair or mobility scooter; their lower eye height compared to...

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Safe System Snippet 414: Shining a light on pedestrian safety

Safe System Snippet 414: Shining a light on pedestrian safety

Pedestrians are the most vulnerable road users, facing high risks on our roads and streets. This is one of the reasons we are corporate supporters of Victoria Walks.  One of Victoria Walks’ great pieces of work (with the help of the TAC and MUARC) looked at ten years...

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Safe System Snippet 412: Wire Rope Safety Barrier on Curves

Safe System Snippet 412: Wire Rope Safety Barrier on Curves

The minimum allowable curve radius for wire rope safety barriers in most jurisdictions is 200m (or the supplier’s minimum recommended radius - whichever is greater). However, some jurisdictions allow a 100m radius curve to be used in specific situations (e.g., in...

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Safe System Solutions marks 1,500th Road Safety Audit

Safe System Solutions marks 1,500th Road Safety Audit

Safe System Solutions recently celebrated a major milestone: our 1,500th Road Safety Audit! While each of these audits has been fascinating in its own way, this one stood out as particularly unique. Why? Because it involved assessing the safety impacts of projecting...

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