Feet First Report

A worrying rise in the number of pedestrian casualties in London since 2011 has led to the London Assembly Transport Committee to recently publish a new report ‘Feet First – Improving Pedestrian Safety in London.’ The report’s recommendations include:

• Appointing a senior representative to champion walking
• Use an assumed walking speed of 0.8 metres per second to calculate minimum crossing times and audit sites where Green Man times have changed
• To provide monthly data on pedestrian casualties
• Develop plans to improve 24 collision hotspots by October 2014
• Publish a timescale for implementing 20mph speed limits on suitable roads
• Ensure road crime is included in Met crime statistics.

You can find the full report here.