Organisation
London Borough of Waltham Forest
Amount awarded
£25,000
Completed
2023
Uploaded to Knowledge Centre
23 April 2025
The London Borough of Waltham Forest (LBWF) began the process of enhancing its cycling and walking network in 2014 through the Enjoy Waltham Forest Programme using Transport for London’s ‘Mini-Holland’ funding, with a focus on the strategic road network and its key junctions. However, there was an overwhelming need to monitor the innovative facilities and infrastructure that were introduced in order to measure the improvements in safety on all routes for all road users.
LBWF was successful in receiving funding from the Road Safety Trust in 2017 for a three-year research project to compare the perceptive and actual levels of road safety in the borough and assess how these change as more walking and cycling infrastructure is introduced.
The study has shown there is a link between where participants perceived areas as unsafe and where collisions have occurred. The perception of safety varies by mode and area, however the primary issue raised by all modes, apart from public transport users, was traffic, which therefore suggests that people will only feel safer travelling if there are fewer vehicles on the borough’s roads and consequently less traffic.
To access the full report, visit The Road Safety Trust website:
https://www.roadsafetytrust.org.uk/funded-projects/17/london-borough-of-waltham-forest