The role everyone has to play in road safety, and the relationship people have with speed is the focus of a new road safety awareness raising campaign which gets underway in Hamilton this week.
The “Safer Roads for All” campaign aims to get people thinking about the range of Hamiltonians who use the city’s streets and roads, and their reasons for getting around eg to school, on the way to work, while exercising, going to the shops.
The approach is fresh and positive and aims to foster a sense of community and working together to ensure people can get places safely. It also aims to build understanding of how the speed drivers travel at influences how safe it is for people on the city’s footpaths, streets and roads.
The campaign is being run ahead of community engagement in October/November which will seek the community’s views on a suggested approach to how speed could be managed in Hamilton, and places and areas of the city which need to be made safer through better management of speed.
- Find out more at hamilton.govt.nz/saferroadshamilton