Level crossing crashes
While level crossing crashes between vehicles and trains are small in number they are generally very severe in terms of deaths and injuries and can have devastating effects on communities.
What the strategy will do
Measures to reduce the incidence of these types of crashes will include:
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Infrastructure programs to progressively upgrade safety at level crossings in Melbourne and provincial Victoria. Measures to improve rail level crossing safety will include automated advance warning signs at highway and high volume sites and placing rumble strips on the road to alert motorists that they are approachingrail level crossings.
- Streamline requirements to remove or trim native vegetation in order to maintain the safety and visibility of rail level crossings and their approaches.
