State Priorities

Safer regional roads

• Ensure the existing Regional Road Safety Program is fully funded and delivered. 
• Co-fund a new program applying low-cost safety treatments to approximately 8,000 kilometres of high speed sealed local government roads.

Safer speeds

• Establish and fund a program led by Main Roads WA that enables local governments to assess speed limits across their road network and implement safer limits.

Improved active transport

• Direct 10% of the transport capital budget toward active transport infrastructure to ensure the Long Term Cycle Network is completed within a decade.
• $3 rather than $1 for each dollar local governments spend on Long Term Cycle Network projects.
• Expand the WA Bicycle Network Grants Program funding criteria to include all Long Term Cycle Network routes within precincts such as schools, activity centres and train stations.

Cleaner transport  

• $23 million or more to expand the WA EV network program, focusing on public charging infrastructure and amenities along major regional and remote routes.
• $15 million to expand the WA Charge Up Grants Program, easing expenditure and applicant criteria to speed up workplace, destination, and public EV fast charger installation.      
• $6.8 million or more in an initial EV fleet purchase rebate to support WA businesses.

Improvements to Perth’s high-frequency bus network

• $120m over 4 years for a bus priority program along high-frequency routes. Think more buses, on time, with improved pedestrian connections.