- Worked with the Brookton community to identify key pedestrian safety concerns around Williams Street and Brookton Highway, particularly affecting children, older residents, and people moving between the school, aged care precinct, CBD, and residential areas.
- Educated residents on safer streets principles and traffic calming strategies through community engagement and local research into road safety attitudes and behaviours.
- Gathered community feedback and local knowledge to help identify danger hotspots and practical street calming solutions that could improve safety while maintaining important freight routes.
- Developed a collaborative masterplan featuring concept designs and visual representations of proposed traffic calming projects, refined alongside key stakeholders and local government partners.
- Created a long-term framework to guide future staged improvements, helping build local capability, increase road safety awareness, and enhance the overall street environment in Brookton.
1. Build local capability and capacity This project educated community on Safer Streets and Traffic Calming strategies, helped them identify pedestrian danger hot spots, and identify helpful traffic calming solutions to mitigate risks. The creation of the masterplan summarises the sub-projects identified, and will guide the roll-out of the projects on a case-by-case basis as resources permit.
2. Change attitudes and behaviours Community members are now aware of the risk areas within the project site, and what means could be employed by local government to mitigate those risk through traffic calming strategies. Vehicle users are also now aware of risk concerns relating to kids and the aged within the community, and are encouraged to change their behaviour as drivers accordingly.
3. Enhance street environment Each of the traffic calming sub-projects employs strategies which have the additional benefit of enhancing the street environment, without compromising the traffic flow on the Main Roads heavy freight routes.
4. Trial a collaborative model We have modelled and depicted each of the sub-projects in the masterplan, with graphic representation of what is planned in each instance, and this model has been reviewed and revised to suit the criteria of major project stakeholders.
