Less than 25% of NSW students walk, cycle or take public transport to school. It's estimated that 65% of morning congestion due to school runs. Now imagine if 75% of students walked, cycled or took public transport to school, how much less congestion we would have.

Big leadership from a small council. Borough of Queenscliffe propose a 30km/h speed limit across their urban areas “...we need to make it more accessible for people to walk and ride their bikes and feel safe” - Mayor Ross Ebbels heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/… Mandy Squires

We spoke with ABC Illawarra on better design, better rules, better prioritisation so walking becomes safer and more pleasant. Just last week, a woman got killed when hit by a Ute next to a fruitshop in Fairy Meadow. "She was crossing the driveway on the footpath", the police said

Is there a different type of low traffic neighbourhood in the UK that is less controversial? The holiday park.

"The reason we recommend this is that the evidence is really clear that when you reduce speeds to this level in suburban streets … it reduces the impact of any crash that people may have with pedestrians or cyclists." abc.net.au/news/2023-05-0… via ABC Australia

A strong theme of #SmartUrbanFutures conference last week was the need for safer speed. Great to see a regional centre like Mildura Council joining Warrnambool City in putting it into practice, trialling 30km/h in their CBD

Lowering speed limits on @tfl roads has cut the number of people being killed & seriously injured by 25%, with a 64% fall in pedestrian collisions. That's why we're continuing to roll out our lower speeds programme & and working with Metropolitan Police to increase enforcement.

RACV: “One-third of respondents called for lower speed zones on roads they use often.” racv.com.au/royalauto/news…

2023 study: “Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults."

“The whole world is moving towards 30k in busy walking areas, and that’s where we need to be,” he said, adding New Zealand was now rolling them out in many of its city centres. - our Ben Rossiter makes the case for safer speeds to Mandy Squires heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/…

Making the case for 30km/h around shops and schools on 3AW. Time to change the Vic speed limit policy to support safe speeds (like NSW recently did) omny.fm/shows/3aw-afte…

Two Melbourne suburbs set to get 30kph speed limit in expansion of local trial 'Of the 193 crashes on Fitzroy & Collingwood's roads in the last five years, 80% involved pedestrians, cyclists & motorcyclists' abc.net.au/news/2023-11-1…

Talking with Jonathon Kendall on ABC Statewide about 30km/h limits - applied for years in Europe - he hits the nail on the head pretty quickly "So do you think this is a case of Australia playing catch up?" Yes, yes we do abc.net.au/listen/program… (starts 34:20)

“We have to follow the evidence, not people’s perceptions,” - our response to Victoria Police Commissioner's off-the-cuff comments on 30 km/h limit theage.com.au/national/victo…