Bicycle Victoria position: Road safety

Bicycle Victoria's approach to road safety is based on the following principles:

Data:

• Identify reliable information about bicycle trauma
• Analyse, interpret and publish the data
• Identify data that needs to be gathered e.g. establish a sound basis for measuring exposure or the amount of cycling that occurs.

Consensus:

• Build consensus amongst all stakeholders on the priority problems.

Prevention:

• Encourage all stakeholders to move to a preventative approach.

Emphasise engineering countermeasures:

• Ensure that bike paths are built/adapted to reduce crashes that are caused by poorly designed corners, sight lines, centrally located bollards and inadequate maintenance
• Ensure that bike lanes meet the national guidelines when installed as part of bicycle networks
• Monitor implementation of countermeasures
• Evaluate effectiveness

Training:

• Support training courses that increase bicycle skills for adults and children.

Standards:

• Support appropriate standards that improve bicycle safety.

Regulations:

• Support regulations that improve bicycle safety
• Encourage regular review of penalties.

Insurance solutions:

• Develop insurance solutions for common causes of injury and property damage.