NSW drives harder on heavy vehicle safety while the ACT remains non-committal

Thousands of heavy truck movements will roll in and out Canberra's city centre from later this year with the raising of London Circuit. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

The NSW government aims to take the national lead in addressing road trauma, taking a far more proactive approach than the ACT on tackling key issues in the years ahead under its new road safety action plan.

And it aims to be publicly transparent about its road safety successes and shortcomings, staging an annual conference each year to "disseminate information on road safety performance and identify further strategic opportunities to achieve trauma reduction targets".