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WIDE CENTRELINES

Towards Zero is a plan to ensure no one is seriously injured or killed on our roads. The Victorian Government is investing $1.4 billion to achieve fewer than 200 deaths by 2020 and reduce serious injuries by 15% on Victoria’s roads.

What we’re doing

Wide centrelines are often used alongside other safety treatments as part of our road safety improvement projects.

We’re currently investigating other roads across Victoria that may benefit from wide centreline treatments.

We will be announcing the confirmed sites in late 2018.

How wide centrelines work

Wide centreline treatments increase the gap between oncoming lanes of traffic.

The same road rules apply for wide centrelines as double lines. Overtaking and turning across continuous centrelines is not

As part of Towards Zero, we’re widening the centreline of roads to create a larger gap between oncoming traffic and improve safety for people travelling on rural roads.

permitted, and only allowed when the left line or both lines are broken.

Why we’re doing this

Run-off-road crashes are the single biggest cause of death on Victoria’s country roads. In 2017, 109 people lost their lives on a Victorian country road because of vehicles veering out of their lane with 37 of these lives lost in head-on collisions.

Wide centrelines improve safety for drivers by giving them more time to react if vehicles start to drift out of their lane and onto the middle of the road, and help to prevent head-on collisions.

Where wide centrelines allow overtaking, drivers will have better line of sight and more space to safely overtake cyclists.

More information

To find out more about wide centrelines, email: safetravel@roads.vic.gov.au