Richmond, with its vibrant communities and bustling neighbourhoods, deserves safer streets. By lowering speed limits to 30km/h in high access neighbourhoods, we can make our streets safer for all road users, including cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers.

We’d like to draw your attention to a new petition for safe, 30km/h streets for Richmond from our friends at Safer Streets for Richmond. The petition calls on Yarra Council to implement 30 km/h speed limits across high-access neighbourhoods in Richmond to help create calmer, more liveable streets, encouraging walking and cycling and improving community amenity.

This proposal arises from ongoing concerns about the safety of vulnerable road users and the easy win 30km/h streets provide residents. Evidence indicates that reducing speed limits to 30km/h significantly lowers the likelihood and severity of collisions — while having minimal effect on driving times.

Lower speeds are also very popular once implemented, with Yarra Council community consultation in 2023 showing 68% of residents and workers surveyed supported the Collingwood and Fitzroy 30km/h trial area (which has since been extended).

We encourage readers who care about safer streets to add their name to the petition and help send a clear message to Council. Together we can help make Richmond safer for everyone.