Birmingham’s bold approach to road safety and transforming our streets

Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:08

Birmingham 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. Consultation runs from 8 January until 5 April 2024.

Placing people at its heart, it aims to reduce the speed and number of motor vehicles on local streets, instead creating safer spaces to walk and cycle.

Supporting the Birmingham 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 Healthy Streets approach.

Healthy Streets is about designing streets 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.

Full details can be found here - https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/news/article/1422/birmingham_s_bold_approach_to_road_safety_and_transforming_our_streets

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