40k for Kids - Phase 2 launch

Launching Phase 2 - banners for schools

On Wednesday 9th october several Queanbeyan School representatives gathered at the Bicentenial Hall to support the launch of Phase 2 of the "40k for Kids" road safety program.

The first phase arranged for a banner to be placed on the Queanbeyan City Councils banner display over Bungendore Road near the Queens Bridge to remind all passing drivers that the 40k school zones were active again.

The second phase provides banners to each of Queanbeyan's schools to carry the message to drivers in the zones around the schools. 

The Queabeyan Road Safety Group would like to thank the NRMA-ACT Road Safety Trust for their support from their road safetygrants program, the Queanbeyan City Council for their ongoing support and the Queanbeyan Schools who have so enthusiastically embraced the program!

One of the banners displayed at Lowe Street

Welcome to the QRSG Blog

Welcome to the Queanbeyan Road Safety Group.

The group has been running for several years and has been successful in initiating and supporting programs to help make Queanbeyan roads that little bit safer.

Made up of volunteers from the Queanbeyan community the Group has been supported by Queanbeyan City Council through membership and advice from the Councils Road Safety Officer, and through grants recieved from the NRMA Motoring Services and the NRMA-ACT Road Safety Trust.

Details of past projects include:

• Night Seen , Night Safe - a visibility for cyclists and pedestrians which used reflective "slap bands" to promote the need for cyclists and pedestrians to take care and make an extra effort to be seen in the  darker months of winter. Launched 7 May 2008.

• 40K for Kids - a  program to remind drivers in Queanbeyan that the 40kmh speed limit is active throughout the school term. The program uses a banner across the main highway and stickers and fridge magnets as memory joggers. The program was launched with the active support of the Queanbeyan Mayor Tim Overall and the Councils Road Safety Officer Mrs Ashley Mynot. The launch was made at the Queanbeyan Public School with the Principal, teachers and many students, and the NRMA-ACT Road Safety Trusts Secretary Manager Linda Cooke. (Council Media Release). Launched in Dec 2012
  

40k for Kids launch Dec 2012

• 40k for Kids - Part Two - The group has recieved a grant from the NRMA-ACT Road Safety Trust which will allow the expansion of the "40k for Kids" program to all schools in Queanbeyan.The banners have been printed. Mayor Tim Overall, our locals schools, Queanbeyan Police and parents and citizens have been invited.The launch has been scheduled for the 9th October 2013 at 10:30am at the Bicentenial Hall Queanbeyan.