TfL adds more green by default pedestrian crossings19/03/2025 Transport for London (TfL) is continuing to roll out Green Person Authority signals at pedestrian crossings in the capital following a successful trial. |
ORR glosses over lack of progress on SRN safety14/03/2025 National Highways has so far only implemented half of the actions it promised last March to cut casualties on its network and remains likely to miss its safety target for the current roads period. |
Rutland takes proactive approach to speed11/03/2025 The UK and Ireland arm of SWARCO has started on a £390,281 three-year contract to supply and install vehicle activated signs across Rutland for the county council. |
Crash death smart motorway not due for refuge retrofit11/03/2025 A section of smart motorway where the driver of a stationary vehicle was killed, causing a coroner to raise concerns over the distance between safe places to stop, is not due to have extra emergency refuges retrofitted. |
Slow progress on emergency SRN safety plan11/03/2025 Some of the measures in a year-old plan that National Highways was required to draw up to address its failing safety record are ‘still going through consultation and governance’. |
Drivers losing confidence in smart motorways, AA says07/03/2025 The AA has repeated its call for the return of the hard shoulder across the English motorway network after a new survey suggested that anxiety over smart motorways is increasing. |
National Highways explores new markings profile for centre line safety17/02/2025 National Highways is considering bringing in new road marking profiles to raise the audible impact of crossing centre lines, as part of wider updates to the markings sector. |
TRL working on world first – linking health records and collision data03/02/2025 TRL has partnered with University Hospital Southampton to reduce road deaths by linking health records and road traffic collision data in what is thought to be a world-first. |
Wales road safety stats: 20mph 'a beacon for the rest of the UK'31/01/2025 The latest police statistics, covering the third quarter of 2024, show collisions and casualties on Welsh roads are at their lowest level for the summer quarter since records began, including during the pandemic. |
Speed is of the essence for smart motorway refuge programme30/01/2025 National Highways has said it is ‘working hard’ to meet its target of installing 150 new emergency areas on smart motorways by the end of March after completing just 56 with three months to go before its deadline. |
National Highways tackles danger route with speed cut27/01/2025 A top safety expert has praised a £2.1m National Highways scheme to cut collisions on a key route across Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire with lower speed limits and average speed cameras. |
Toolkit for multi award-winning safety scheme released13/01/2025 A groundbreaking toolkit in support of a Highways Awards winning motorcycle safety system has been released for road authorities. |
CIHT offers to host national road safety board13/12/2024 The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation has offered to host a new road safety board as part of efforts to support a wider, cross-sector, adoption of the Safe System approach to road risk. |
Manchester goes vision zero with new action plan10/12/2024 Leaders from Greater Manchester’s 10 local authorities unanimously approved the city region’s Vision Zero Strategy and Action Plan, which aims to eliminate road deaths and life-changing injuries by 2040. |
A38 flood spot gets 'much-needed' drainage boost03/12/2024 National Highways is taking action to improve safety at a flooding hot spot on the A38 in Cornwall. |
Brum seeks approval for default 20mph limit03/12/2024 Birmingham City Council has asked the Government to allow it to introduce a default 20mph speed limit on restricted roads across the city. |
'Alarming spike' in young women killed on GB roads28/11/2024 There were 2% fewer people killed on British roads in the year to June 2024 but the number of killed or seriously injured (KSI) casualties saw ‘little change’ compared to the previous year, according to official provisional figures. |
Scottish Govt plans national speed limit reduction27/11/2024 The Scottish Government has launched a groundbreaking speed management consultation that could reduce the national speed limit. |
CIHT: Practical action needed to cut road casualties27/11/2024 A top sector body has called for a step change towards the Safe System approach to break the current 'stagnation' in the number of casualties on UK roads. |
Major Road Network identified as 'road safety priority'26/11/2024 The crash rate on major local authority roads in England is four times that on National Highways’ strategic road network, a new report has found. |
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