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State Government - Road Safety grant project locations
The State government recently announced the Community Road Safety Grants Program.
The grants were designed to fund local communities (in most cases via councils) with funding for projects that aimed to prevent serious injury and loss of life on local roads.
https://transport.vic.gov.au/news-and-resources/campaigns/community-road-safety-grants-program
We have completed an interactive map to show where grants were awarded. You can click on each grant dot and see who got the funding.
The map is compelling, in that it reveals serious funding black holes where no safety improvement programs were funded. Large areas of Metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria had no safety improvement funding.
This is a failure on the Allan Government to provide Councils with adequate funding.