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Speaker 1: I mentioned this a little while ago. Territorians are being

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Speaker 1: urged to have their say on the most dangerous roads

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Speaker 1: and intersections as the twenty twenty six Risky Road Survey

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Speaker 1: gets underway. Now, this survey, it launches this coming Thursday,

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Speaker 1: I believe, and it's going to remain open until March

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Speaker 1: thirty one. It gives drivers, riders and pedestrians the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to really identify those locations that they feel could be unsafe.

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Speaker 1: Now joining us in the studio is Ben haythorpe Ant,

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Speaker 1: Senior Manager of Advocacy and Community Engagement.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Ben, morning Katie. Good to be here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, lovely to have you in the studio. Now, Ben,

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Speaker 1: tell me what's the purpose of this survey.

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Speaker 2: Look, the purpose of the Risky Roads Survey is to

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Speaker 2: find out from all Territorians what roads aren't up to scratch,

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Speaker 2: what roads I'd like to see improvements made one and

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Speaker 2: also to help us deliver a report that we're going

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Speaker 2: to give to the government to help them make decisions

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Speaker 2: as to where the priorities are for the next phase

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Speaker 2: of engineering works that happens on our roads.

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Speaker 1: I reckon this is a really good thing to do,

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Speaker 1: or I feel like a lot of people have concerns

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Speaker 1: about different roads that they may not like or different

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Speaker 1: intersections that they may feel are dangerous. So I would

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Speaker 1: think that a lot of people would want to get

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Speaker 1: involved in this survey. Now it's not the first time

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Speaker 1: that it's happened. Is that twenty twenty one, I believe

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Speaker 1: that a similar survey had taken place.

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Speaker 2: That's right. In twenty twenty one, we did the same thing.

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Speaker 2: We asked territories which roads and intersections they didn't like.

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Speaker 2: We came up with a report that we presented to

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Speaker 2: the government and you know, we prioritize the top five

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Speaker 2: risky roads in Darwin, the top five risky intersections in Darwin,

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Speaker 2: and same in the regions as well, intersections and areas

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Speaker 2: of road And that was presented to the government. And

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Speaker 2: now we're doing the same thing five years later to

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Speaker 2: see what improvements have been made and where we're up

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Speaker 2: to with those.

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Speaker 1: Those other roads. Yeah, so been with those other roads,

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Speaker 1: any idea did like we're able to give the government

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Speaker 1: a tick on any of the ones, did they actually

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Speaker 1: deliver or.

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Speaker 2: Look they're doing a pretty good job actually. Yeah. So

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Speaker 2: you can look on the DLI website and they've got

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Speaker 2: some documentation there of roads that they've started working on

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Speaker 2: and then plans for procurement, you know, the ones that

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Speaker 2: are coming. So yeah, look, I was pleasantly surprised that

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of it's called p and C, so

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Speaker 2: procurement and consultation, I think, planning and consultation with the

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Speaker 2: community about these roads. So yeah, I think we're making progress.

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Speaker 1: That is good to hear because it is one of

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Speaker 1: those things I think that you know, you can drive

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Speaker 1: on a road every day for two years and then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden there's an issue there or something

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Speaker 1: goes on, or it might be that you've been taking

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Speaker 1: that same path and you've always had a concern with that,

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Speaker 1: but you don't really know if anything's ever going to change.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And you know when you drive on roads,

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Speaker 2: me myself being you in town, you know there are

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Speaker 2: roads that I've already seen that go that's that's a

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Speaker 2: bit unusual. Yeah, Like the first time I drove out

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Speaker 2: to Casualina shopping Center, I just happened to be on

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Speaker 2: the footpath lane there and all of a sudden I

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Speaker 2: was driving to Nightcliff because I failed to see that,

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Speaker 2: you know, there was a sign there, and I'm sure

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Speaker 2: I'm not the first person to do that. So that's

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Speaker 2: the sort of thing that we're looking for, anything that

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Speaker 2: we can do to assist drivers on the road and

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Speaker 2: make our road safer.

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Speaker 1: Look, I love a good winge about the road, So

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Speaker 1: what's yours. I were talking about this earlier, and I

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Speaker 1: really don't like the intersection on Baggett Road when you

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Speaker 1: come out of McDonald's.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, I can.

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Speaker 1: Never get across. I always get I feel anxious trying

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Speaker 1: to get across that road and thinking ployees, don't let

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Speaker 1: there be any cars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the interesting part is the speed limit along there

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Speaker 2: isn't there cars going fast.

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Speaker 1: So it's always a bit of a worry. So I

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Speaker 1: guess there'd be different areas where people do have those concerns.

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Speaker 2: That's right, And so is that the kind of thing that.

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Speaker 1: You you're asking for a you know, like you're asking

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Speaker 1: for territorians to sort of go, all right, well, what's

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Speaker 1: an area that you think might be a little bit

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Speaker 1: unsafe for Is there somewhere where you've seen several crashes

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Speaker 1: or is it just an area where it's not well signed.

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Speaker 2: It can be all of those all of the above.

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Speaker 2: So it could be a simple thing like you know,

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Speaker 2: new line marking. There could be trees blocking signs, all

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Speaker 2: of those sorts of things, right down to potholes, you know,

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Speaker 2: if there's potholes appearing, you know, all of those things

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Speaker 2: we want to know about. And the survey gives people

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Speaker 2: the chance to make comment and let us know about

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Speaker 2: those things. And Ben, are we.

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Speaker 1: Mostly looking at urban sort of areas as well or

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Speaker 1: are we looking at some of those main highways.

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Speaker 2: Too, highways as well? You know, as we know Stuart

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Speaker 2: high is really important, so it's really important for us.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's a part of this survey. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: it is territory wide, so it goes you know from

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Speaker 2: Colgra all the way up to Darwin.

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Speaker 1: Ben, Jody and Woodroff's message through She said, Hi, Katie,

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Speaker 1: is that risky road survey just for motorists? Because as

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Speaker 1: a legally blind pedestrian, I'm concerned about the number of

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Speaker 1: pedestrians crossing lights with beeping buttons, sounds and signals. They're

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Speaker 1: extremely dangerous. Am I able to submit this as a

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Speaker 1: concern to the road survey questions? Jody?

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Speaker 2: Definitely, And that's exactly the sort of thing we want

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Speaker 2: to hear about. The survey is open to anyone, not

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Speaker 2: just a team members. Anyone is welcome to go on

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Speaker 2: the website and it is actually open now. It opened

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Speaker 2: this week and I think we've already got someone told

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Speaker 2: me in the office. One hundred and twenty people have

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Speaker 2: already responded. So it's really cool about their roads.

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Speaker 1: I know it. Like I know sometimes you go out,

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Speaker 1: it's not sexy to talk about roads and intersections, but

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Speaker 1: people really care.

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Speaker 2: Oh definitely. You know, it's a part of keeping our

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Speaker 2: community safe. So and roads are really critical to make

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Speaker 2: sure that everyone gets you to and from work safely,

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Speaker 2: everyone can go to school safely. It's really important.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: This is a good chance for people to have a say, yeah, Ben,

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Speaker 2: where can they go?

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Speaker 1: Anybody that's listening this morning that's thinking, hey, I do

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Speaker 1: actually want to let let the AA and know which

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Speaker 1: road is not acceptable?

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Speaker 2: If you just google ant Risky Rose, it comes up perfect.

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Speaker 1: All right. Well, thank you so much for coming into

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Speaker 1: the studio this morning. Ben Haythorpe Ant, Senior Manager of

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Speaker 1: Advocacy and Community Engagement. Good to chat with.

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Speaker 2: You, Good to see you again.

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Speaker 1: Thank you