Page last reviewed 07 Oct 2025
The School Safety Program works closely with schools, parents and the community to deliver infrastructure improvements around schools. Improvements focus on increasing safety and supporting students to walk and ride to school or use public transport.
Active travel improves student health and wellbeing and reduces the prevalence of chronic diseases later in life. It also reduces our transport emissions, helps to minimise congestion and builds confidence and independence for students.
Each year a program of works is delivered around schools to support active travel. Improvements include a combination of upgrades to existing infrastructure and new works, focusing on paths, crossings and treatments to slow vehicle speeds.
Below is the current program of works for infrastructure upgrades. Also view the walking and cycling infrastructure projects map to see information on walking and cycling projects.
Infrastructure upgrades
Belconnen
Design
- Aranda Primary School: upgrade crossing on Bindel Street
- Dunlop Primary School: upgrade the existing refuge island on Lhotsky Street
- Kingsford Smith School and Cranleigh School: new footpath connection along Starke Street
- Maribyrnong Primary School: new footpath connections and pedestrian crossings on Alberga Street and Shannon Circuit
- Southern Cross Early Childhood School: improve safety of children’s crossing on Wirraway Crescent
Construction
- Canberra High School: two pedestrian crossings on Bowman Street plus an additional pedestrian refuge
Complete
- Macgregor Primary School: new children's crossing on Osburn Drive
- Melba Copland College: new refuge island and traffic calming on Verbrugghen Street
- Melba Copland Secondary School: new line marking
Central
Design
- St Edmund's College/St Clare's College: design and construction of a safer signalised pedestrian crossing on Canberra Avenue
- Ainslie Primary School: improve path connections on Elder Street and Farrer Street and investigate crossing improvements on Elder Street
- Black Mountain School: improve pedestrian connectivity to the school from Miller Street and provide a new refuge island on Miller Street
- Canberra Girls Grammar School: new children's crossing on Grey Street
- Forrest Primary School: new footpath connection along an existing desire line on National Circuit from Canberra Avenue to Forrest Primary School
- Lyneham High School: improve crossing infrastructure and path connections on Murdoch and Goodwin streets
- Lyneham Primary School: improve existing and new path connections in the green space behind the school
- Telopea Park School: new pedestrian crossings at Telopea Park and New South Wales Crescent
- Turner Primary School: new footpath connections and a potential crossing on Hartley Street.
Complete
- Yarralumla Primary School: new children’s crossing on Loftus Street
- Canberra Grammar School: traffic calming at the intersection of Flinders Way and Monaro Crescent
- Canberra Girls Grammar School: new children's crossings on Melbourne Avenue
Gungahlin
Design
- Gungahlin College: provide missing footpath connections on Gozzard Street
Complete
- Gold Creek High School: raised pedestrian crossing on Kelleway Avenue
Tuggeranong
Design
- Monash Primary School: new path connection on Alabaster Street
Complete
- Gordon Primary School: traffic calming on Knoke Avenue
- St Mary MacKillop College: convert the existing 2 children's crossings to raised pedestrian crossings on Drumston Street and Ellerston Avenue and provide a new path connection along Ellerston Avenue
- Taylor Primary School: raised pedestrian crossing and rubber speed cushions on Marconi Crescent
Woden, Weston Creek and Molonglo
Design
- Curtin Primary School: improve the existing children's crossing on Carruthers Street
- Holy Trinity Primary School: improve pedestrian safety at the children’s crossing on Theodore Street
- Orana Steiner School: upgrade existing pedestrian crossing on Hickey Court to raised pedestrian crossing
- Sacred Heart Primary School: upgrade the signage and line marking to reduce speeding in school zone along Beasley Street
- Torrens Primary School: new community path between Horrocks Street and the children’s crossing on Batchelor Street and improvements at the children’s crossing
Complete
- Melrose High School: new children’s crossing on Marr Street
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