Share: Essential Evidence
Top line: In an era when there is greater collective agreement than previously as to the need to promote walking and cycling, a change in emphasis in road safety is required, with a redeployment of resources towards tackling the sources of danger, rather than just looking at those groups who are the victims.1
Top line: Traffic calming schemes are not only beneficial through casualty reduction and in reducing traffic danger but may also be important in improving physical health status among local residents.
Top line: There is a need for UK policies and governance structures to initiate a systemic shift to a low consumption paradigm in order to move people out of their comfort zone of carbon-intensive living. Such a shift would have additional benefits, including fostering social justice and well-being, aside from climate change mitigation.
Top line: Speeding traffic is rated as the greatest antisocial behavior in local communities. On the basis of results reported in the British Crime Survey police could argue that any enforcement programme currently operating is compatible with public concern.
Top line: Risks to health in the 21st century are increasingly likely to come as a result of global threats to resources. A precautionary approach, especially around resilience, notably protecting finite resources, is a highly rational approach in such a period of uncertainty from potential major threats.
Top line: The city regions that will prosper this century will be those that successfully adapt their approach to transport. Within densely populated areas the normal choice will be safe, reliable, comfortable and affordable public transport combined with walking and cycling.
West of England
