Road Safety Education
Rotorua’s major road safety issues, in order of priority, are:
- Intersections
- Alcohol
- Speed
- Loss of control on bends
Council works with the community on projects to improve road awareness and safety:
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Alcohol campaigns
- urging locals not to drink and drive. Council supports local Students Against Drunk Drivers (SADD) activities such as The Amazing Race and national SADD
week
- Back to School programmes
- reduce speeding around schools and to improve children’s safety on our roads.
- Community Projects Fund
- to encourage communities to be proactive about local road safety issues.
- Driver licensing
- presenting marae-based courses to encourage novice drivers to complete the graduated driver licensing system.
- Intersection campaigns
- to promoting better driving and safety at intersections.
- Kidz in cars
- increase the car seat compliance rate for the district’s under-fives, through roadside checkpoints, workshops, checking clinics and community activities including preschool education.
- Rail awareness campaigns
- to coincide with increased rail activity on reopened lines.
- School driver education programmes
- to be offered to secondary schools in 2009.
- Seat belt/restraints campaigns
- increasing the seat belt compliance rate through roadside checks and promotional activities.
The key to all of the activities and projects is establishing community development through involvement and encouraging people to share in taking responsibility for their safety on and near to road ways.