Meeting Dates

The City of Melville Road Safety and Travelsmart Committee Meeting meets on the second Wednesday of every third month.

Committee Membership:

• City of Melville Councillors
• City of Melville Staff
• Main Roads WA Representative
• Members of Parliament
• Department of Transport Representative
• South Metro Traffic Police Representatives
• Public Transport Authority of WA Representative
• Murdoch University Representative
• Melville Bicycle User Group Representative
• Melville Community Representatives

Projects/Issues

Safe Speeds

'Please Slow Down, Consider Our Kids' bin stickers project

Look out for the speed display trailer around the City of Melville

Community Safe Speed Promise
The City of Fremantle together with the City of Melville and City of Cockburn run the community Safe Speed Promise Project which is funded by the Community Road Safety Grants Program. The Program commit participants to:

• Keep within the speed limit,
• Be courteous and careful drivers, and
• Consider cyclists, pedestrians and other road users

The City of Melville has committed itself to the Safe Speed Promise by employing a dedicated Community Safe Speed Officer. That has resulted in a concerted effort at Primary Schools in Melville, Fremantle and Cockburn. More than 20 schools have pledged their support. A major push has also been made through Service Clubs, specifically Rotary and Lion’s clubs in the three cities. That push is continuing. A Salter Point man was the lucky recipient of a holiday in the South West after his name was drawn at random from the more than 700 people that have signed Safe Speed Pledges.

The focus in 2012 will be getting into High Schools to speak to and sign up those just beginning their driving careers in Years 10 and 11. Approval has been granted by the president of the High School Principal’s Association. Safe Speed Officer Jim Shaw has also formed an alliance with the RAC, the Paraplegic Benefit Fund and RPH’s PARTY program to add the Safe Speed Promise talk to their high school visits, so it becomes a holistic presentation on road safety. Jim is also been invited to present at a major RAC road safety event at Challenge Stadium in May to be attended by 4,000 high school students.

Safe Road Use

Find articles from the City of Melville about road safety initiatives within the Melville community in your local papers.

Safe Vehicles

Businesses within the City of Melville offer a Child Car Restraint service. For more information please phone 1300 780 713.

Safe Roads & Roadsides

Black Spot Funding Grants

Bike Planning in the City of Melville　
The humble bicycle is still the most efficient transport device ever invented and as roads become congested, petrol costs increase and waistlines expand - people are demanding safe and direct routes to cycle.　

Residents in the City of Melville make 2% of their journeys by bicycle and with the wide range of environmental, social, community and financial benefits that cycling produces the City is keen to increase the number of journeys being made by bike.　

Currently intimidation by traffic (volume and speed) is, ironically, one of the primary reasons residents choose the car over the bike, even for short trips.　

This is why the City is producing a Bike Plan that will begin to identify key strategic routes for cycling as well as road designs and pavement markings that make cycling more common and accepted as a form of transport. Another aspect of the bike plan will be safe and comfortable facilities for pedestrians as many future paths will function as shared paths.　

If you have suggestions for key strategic routes for walking, cycling in the City of Melville please forward your comments to our TravelSmart Officer Leon Ebbelaar on 9364 0673 or leon.ebbelaar@melville.wa.gov.au

Contact

Leon Ebbelaar
City of Melville
Email lebbelaar@melville.wa.gov.au