Four significant intersection safety upgrades have been completed across Brisbane to help residents get home sooner and safer.
Lord Mayor, Adrian Schrinner said the projects formed part of the Federal Government’s 2022-23 Black Spot Program to target areas with a high crash history.
“Brisbane is the fastest-growing capital city in the country and it is vital that we continue to invest in our transport network,” Lord Mayor Schrinner said.
“By partnering with the Federal Government throughout the Black Spot Program, we are able to identify and fix some of the most crash prone sites in our suburbs.
“Over the past 12 months, Council has delivered safety improvements to increase visibility and driver awareness, improve traffic flow and increase accessibility and connectivity to create a safer experience for all road users.”
As part of the program, Council proactively identifies intersections across the city where there is a high number of accidents, and submits the applications to the Federal Government to fund the selected projects.
“In this round of Black Spot projects, Council has targeted intersections at Adelaide and Creek Streets in the CBD, Rosemary and Biota Streets in Inala, Hamilton and Bilsen Roads in Wavell Heights, and Forest Lake Boulevard and Rudyard Street in Forest Lake.”
The intersections selected by Council had a combined 42 crashes between 2015 and 2021.
Lord Mayor Schrinner said Council has now completed Black Spot upgrades at 55 locations across the city since 2010.
“These upgrades have shown to significantly reduce the number of incidents on our roads in these Black Spot locations,” he said.
“In the five years prior to the upgrade of Millers Road and Underwood Road in Eight Mile Plains in 2014, there were 17 recorded crashes reducing to just one in the last five years.
“Similarly, the Kangaroo Point upgrade to the intersection between Main Street and Princess Street in 2016 reduced the number of crashes from 23 to just five in the last five years.”
