The Royal Society of Tasmania

presents

Garry Bailey

Vision Zero: Road Safety in Tasmania

 

Tuesday, 2 July 2019

8.00pm on the RST Rooms,

Customs House Building, Dunn Place, Hobart

 

 

Garry Baily, as chair of the Road Safety Advisor Council (RSAC) will present a lecture on their “vision zero” – working towards reducing the number of serious casualties associated with road accidents. The public have a seemingly high tolerance of serious road casualties, with an average of 35 people killed, and 260 injured annually in Tasmania. If this incidence of deaths and injuries happened in one place or time, it would no doubt led to public outcry, and demands for something to be done. The RSAC is implementing a range of initiatives and systems that underpin the Towards Zero strategy, which aims to change people’s perceptions about speeding.

 

Road Safety Advisory Council chair, Garry Bailey, has more than 45 years’ experience as a media professional. He held senior management positions with Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, publisher of the leading Tasmanian newspapers, The Mercury and the Sunday Tasmanian, for 30 years and was editor from November 2001 to January 2012. He has had an enduring interest in road safety, leading a series of campaigns in his time as editor of both newspapers. Garry continued that commitment as the Tasmanian advocate for Bicycle Network from 2014 to 2017 and as a member of the RACT’s southern advisory committee. Since leaving newspapers, he has been a broadcaster with the ABC, a media and communications consultant, a foundation member of the advisory board for the 26Ten adult literacy organisation, is on the board of the not-for-profit disability service provider Nexus, and was an inaugural member of the Tamar Valley Writers Festival committee.