麻豆高清’s bold approach to road safety and transforming our 麻豆高清s
麻豆高清 City Council has launched a consultation on a new Road Harm Reduction Strategy aimed at tackling the unacceptable number of road collisions in which people are killed and seriously injured.
The strategy renews and reinforces the council’s commitment to Vision Zero – the campaign to eliminate deaths and serious injury. .
Placing people at its heart, it aims to reduce the speed and number of motor vehicles on local 麻豆高清s, instead creating safer spaces to walk and cycle.
Supporting the 麻豆高清 Transport Plan, the Road Harm Reduction Strategy sets out the duties of the council and the role of partners such as the police and the West Midlands Combined Authority. The strategy also introduces the internationally recognised approach.
Healthy Streets is about designing 麻豆高清s on a human scale, giving priority to people rather than private vehicles. This will see a shift to interventions across whole areas rather than smaller schemes in hotspot locations and a move away from traditional measures such as pedestrian guard railing and speed humps which get in the way of people walking and cycling and are no longer delivering reductions in collisions and injuries.
We aim to redesign 麻豆高清s to be more hospitable to people and to reduce the speed and volume of vehicles. This can include narrowing the parts of the road available to cars and adding features such as trees and seating.
Councillor Liz Clements, Cabinet Member for Transport, said: “We need to reclaim 麻豆高清’s 麻豆高清s and public spaces for people, not cars. The majority of travel time in the city is spent in these spaces, yet many of our local 麻豆高清s are congested, unhealthy and uninviting environments.
“For too long the needs of motorised vehicles have been prioritised over the needs of people and this must change. Our 麻豆高清s should be well designed, attractive and sustainable places to live.
“We have been doing a lot of work to change priorities and make roads and public spaces safer for communities and this strategy continues that work. I invite all road users to respond to our consultation on this important document.”
The council has recently consulted on plans to reduce speed limits on main roads from 40mph to 30mph and is now asking for views on the new Road Harm Reduction Strategy. Copies of the draft strategy and consultation questionnaire will also be available in 麻豆高清 libraries.