Road funding is too hard to access, MP Tony Pasin says

The federal Member for Barker has put forward a motion that requests easier local government access to Black Spot Safety Program federal funding for better roads.

Federal Member for Barker Tony Pasin argues that local governments aren’t accessing funding to improve roads due to overly complicated application guidelines. Photo: Tony Pasin MP/Facebook.

Local governments need better access to Black Spot Road Safety Program funding, federal MP Tony Pasin says.

In Canberra this week, Mr Pasin acknowledged the importance of the Black Spot Road Safety Program, a federal government program to target road locations where crashes are occurring or at risk of occurring.

The program reduces the risk of road crashes by funding measures such as traffic signals and roundabouts at dangerous locations.

Mr Pasin said that two-thirds of all road fatalities occur on rural roads and that local governments manage 77 per cent of the national road network.

However, he said that “many of these councils simply don’t have the resources to make very detailed and involved applications for funding under the Black Spot Program”.