Road safety

Council is building an improved road and transport network across Brisbane through a range of key projects including major road construction and intersection upgrades. Council is also working to minimise traffic congestion and to improve safety in local areas through intersection and corridor upgrades and other minor road projects.

Council’s Speed Awareness Monitors program, previously known as speed awareness monitors – drive slow for SAM, is part of Council's commitment to making Brisbane’s suburban streets safer.

Council is committed to delivering road safety initiatives to make Brisbane’s city and suburban streets safer.

Council is making school travel safer by supporting a number of infrastructure initiatives to protect our children and school communities and encourage safety on the roads around our schools. Learn about Council’s Safer Paths to School program, SAMs for Schools program, Traffic Management Plan Improvements program, Safe School Travel Infrastructure program and funding opportunities, Enhanced School Zone Signage program, Queensland Government’s School Crossing Supervisor Scheme.

From 28 March 2019, Council conducted a 12-month trial of new visual U-turn signage at six signalised intersections across Brisbane.

Council is installing wildlife awareness monitors as part of an initiative to help protect and maintain our city's biodiversity.