Update Tuesday 20 May 2025
Consultation on the Speed Limit Review has closed. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback. Your contribution is appreciated.
The purpose of the engagement was to hear about your feelings of safety when using local roads around Anglesea, Aireys Inlet, Fairhaven and Moggs Creek. The engagement was open from Monday 14 April to Monday 19 May 2025.
During this time we collected:
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Introduction
We are reviewing speed limits on local Council-managed roads in the Anglesea, Aireys Inlet, Fairhaven and Moggs Creek townships.
Our aim is to create safer streets for all road users, including motorists, cyclists, pedestrians and wildlife.
We want to hear from the community about your feelings of safety when using these local roads.
Your feedback will be considered alongside expert technical assessments to determine locations for speed limit reductions.
The Great Ocean Road is not included in this speed review. This speed review is about local roads managed by Council. The Great Ocean Road is managed by Transport Victoria.
Project detail
In November 2024, Surf Coast Shire Council was
allocated funding through the Victorian Government's Regional Speed Package for Barwon South West to
review, identify and implement speed zone changes in the coastal townships of
Anglesea, Aireys Inlet, Fairhaven and Moggs Creek.
The project aims to support safer pedestrian,
cyclist and motorist access through the towns.
The speed review will be conducted in two parts:
- Survey of the community that uses these roads; and
- A consultant will conduct a technical assessment of the roads.
The technical assessment and survey data will be used to identify suitable locations for speed limit reductions, in an effort to improve community safety.
Based on the findings of two-part review, we will start a process with Transport Victoria to implement speed limit reductions at identified locations.
Survey
We are seeking to broadly understand your feelings of safety as a road user in each town in the context of the existing speed zones. There is also an opportunity via an interactive map to identify particular roads or areas of concern.
The technical assessment will deliver specific recommendations for revised speed limits on identified roads, based on state wide speed zoning policy. Your feedback is an important part of the data we collect to inform the review.
Our review has been triggered by safety concerns including:
- Crashes involving vulnerable road users.
- Mixed users of the road, including cyclists, pedestrians, motorcyclists, tourists, cars, caravans and tour busses.
- Variation of traffic depending on the season.
- Limited pathways for pedestrians.
- Limited safe road crossings.
- A mix of gravel and sealed roads, leading to varied road conditions.
- Mostly bush environments with crashes involving native animals.
- A number of rural roads with low lighting levels at night, which there is a community desire to maintain to support wildlife and amenity.
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