2015-09-03
Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) — I would like to compliment the government on its adoption of the Towards Zero road safety campaign. I have just completed a tour of the US and a number of cities that have already become leaders in Vision Zero, notably New York and San Francisco, where all the works of government are being united in order to reduce the road toll and send it towards zero. These include measures involving the three Es of Vision Zero, as it has been called: education, engineering and enforcement. I look forward to the plan the government is going to produce later in the year to implement this goal. Hopefully there will be opportunities for the community to participate in the development of that plan. In the meantime, of course, we have a lot of work to do. We need a strong, ongoing and consistent program of works involving engineering, education and enforcement. These measures need to be applied consistently over many years into the future in order to get us moving steadily towards that goal.