Overview
Land Transport NZ was established in 2005 to bring together the management of the road network and road safety activities. As a result, funding for community road safety programmes is also being integrated, with community-focussed sustainability activities such as neighbourhood accessibility plans, and engineering and enforcement activities.
From the 1st July 2007 the current CRSP funding will be integrated into approved authorities' land transport plans.
Road crashes are a major public health problem. They cause most of the preventable injuries in New Zealand and consume huge amounts of the country's health resources.
The Community Road Safety Programme (CRSP) funds initiatives to address local road safety issues throughout New Zealand.
The programme has been running for the past 15 years:
The CRSP draws on many public health and community development strategies to assist its work including those set out in the Ottawa Charter for health promotion.
The vision of the CRSP is:
"Community involvement in road safety so that positive and sustainable changes in attitudes occur, and contribute to making New Zealand's roads safer."