Two years ago, the Tasmanian government released concept designs for wider pathways for pedestrians and cyclists on the Tasman Bridge. Now, the government says it cannot be done without spending significantly more money than it budgeted.<\/p>\n
The data came from the Tasmanian Suicide Register, which was established as part of one of the 2016 recommendations.<\/p>\n
The coroners’ report released this week found that more improvements are needed to build on these recommendations.<\/p>\n
“Measures such as camera surveillance, police data and the Tasmanian Suicide Register are important for investigation and reporting purposes,” the report reads.<\/p>\n
“As noted in the findings, however, while it may be possible, they are less likely to directly prevent suicide deaths.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The 2016 report also recommended that the government formulate a “plan” for structural modifications on the bridge, with a key aim of eliminating suicide risk.<\/p>\n
Safety advocate pleased with progress<\/p>\n
Graeme Peck has been pushing for safety improvements on the bridge for over a decade, and is part of a consultation group run through the Department of State Growth, along with cycling and pedestrian advocates.<\/p>\n
He said he was pleased to see works coming closer to fruition to prevent further deaths by suicide.<\/p>\n
“I think State Growth \u2014 all of the people directly involved in this \u2014 have now got all the facts, there’s two coroners reports, no-one can defend not going ahead with it,” Mr Peck said.<\/p>\n
“It will also make it safer for cyclists and pedestrians from falling into traffic \u2026 the one-way arrangement will add to it being more efficient and safer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coroner’s report has found there is an “immediate need” for the installation of safety barriers on Hobart’s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37171,4740,37172,37173,37164,37163,37169,37174,3166,37165,50,24921,8148,8152,37170,37167,1197,11121,37162,3155,37168,37166],"class_list":{"0":"post-48612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-anti-suicide","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-barrier","11":"tag-bridge","12":"tag-coroners","13":"tag-coronial","14":"tag-cycle-path","15":"tag-derwent-river","16":"tag-hobart","17":"tag-inquest","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-prevention","20":"tag-protection","21":"tag-safety","22":"tag-safety-barriers","23":"tag-story-bridge","24":"tag-suicide","25":"tag-tas","26":"tag-tasman-bridge","27":"tag-tasmania","28":"tag-tasmanian-government","29":"tag-west-gate-bridge"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114817507310011629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}