Whitehorse is a mix of residential streets, bustling shopping centres and high technology precincts. The Eastern Freeway, extending from Hoddle Street, inner Melbourne, currently terminates in the middle of our municipality at Springvale Road. From this point, motorists are faced with an arterial road that was not designed to carry current traffic volumes, collector roads acting as arterial roads and local streets that are used extensively by through traffic. The State Government proposes to extend the freeway to Frankston by 2008. This unique circumstance has meant that the City of Whitehorse has to adopt a range of measures to tackle traffic management and road safety. Specific road safety programs are delivered through a range of Council activities. Council has developed a Road Safety Strategy and Traffic Management Strategy that sit within the umbrella of an Integrated Transport Strategy. These strategies guide Council in its decision making and highlight the importance of integrating behavioural, engineering and enforcement measures to improve road safety. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E211954.
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