The Council’s existing Road Safety Strategy is 10 years old, and in September 2025 the Council’s Transport Committee set up a Task and Finish Group to start developing a new Strategy. BWA has submitted our suggestions in writing, and we had the opportunity to present to the T&F Group in November.
We gave our top 3 critical issues and top 3 priorities for actions (as requested), then dived deeper into the subject. What is needed is a ‘systems approach’, which is defined as a holistic strategy for tackling complex problems by looking at all interconnected parts of a system—like environments, policies, cultures, and individual behaviours. A road safety system approach encompasses safer streets, safer speeds, and safer road use.
As a test of what is needed for safer streets, we looked at what actions the city of Oslo took when they successfully reduced pedestrian casualties. The measures they took constitute a wide roll-out of pedestrian-friendly road design changes. To help ensure that the actions are implementable, we looked at how such measures could be included in the Council’s programme of transport schemes.
You can read our 13-page submission here:
BWA-on-Road-Safety-Strategy-v4.pdf