Michael Ferguson,Minister for Infrastructure and Transport
The new Chair of Tasmania’s Road Safety Advisory Council, Scott Tilyard, has started in the role and will oversee a renewed focus on road safety and encouraging motorists to drive safely.
Speeding is reckless and can lead to serious injuries and deaths on our roads.
With the new Chair now in place, we are pleased to announce that the Tasmanian Government is set to introduce more mobile speed cameras to our roads in an effort to drive down the road toll.
Far too many crashes are the result of speeding and it accounts for far too many deaths on our roads, all for the sake of saving a few seconds or because a driver is impatient.
Michael Ferguson,Minister for Infrastructure and Transport
The Tasmanian Liberal Government is delivering better and safer roads around the State including four priority upgrades to improve the West Tamar Highway, north of Legana.
These works are the first stage of a series of projects to improve the safety and efficiency of the West Tamar Highway, with the plans now out for public comment.
These upgrades will improve the lives of communities along the highway by making it safer and improving travel time reliability to and from Launceston.
The three projects completed this month (July) include:
widening the highway between McEwans Road and Waldhorn Drive;
Michael Ferguson,Minister for Science and Technology
The Tasmanian Liberal Government is proud to partner with the Federal Government and Telstra to improve Tasmania’s phone coverage as part of the most recent round of the $380 million national Mobile Black Spot Program.
This will see additional network infrastructure built to improve services for the communities of Bridgenorth, 22 kilometres north-west of Launceston, and Liena in the north-west of the state.
The Tasmanian Liberal Government wanted to increase the chance of success of these needed infrastructure upgrades and pledged contributions totalling $180,500 for the projects, of the total $690,900 build cost. We are pleased that our kickstart funding has helped to win the funding.
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