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April 1st, 2013 
NSW will use revenue from speed camera fines to fund a new initiative to reduce road deaths by 30%.
Source: AAP
MILLIONS of dollars from speed camera fines will be pumped into a safer roads program as part of a plan to cut road deaths in NSW by 30 per cent.
NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay has announced increased funding for the new Safer Roads program to replace the Road Toll Response Package.
The new program will get an extra $7 million a year in funding to take its budget to $36 million a year for the next two financial years as the government seeks to reduce road deaths by 30 per cent by 2021.
“Additional funding will come from the Community Road Safety Fund, which directs speed camera revenue straight back into road safety projects,” Mr Gay said in a statement on Monday.
The new program includes an additional $2 million for highway route safety reviews and $3 million a year for a motorcycle route safety improvement program.
That program involves reviewing and improving motorcycle recreational routes including better signs and line marking for routes such as the Old Pacific Highway, Putty Road, the Oxley Highway, Bruxner Highway, Summerland Way and Thunderbolts Way.
An extra $2 million a year will also be committed to improving pedestrian safety, with a focus on crash risk sites.
Last year 370 people died on NSW roads, an increase of six from 2011.
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