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Hi Keith,
As someone who cycles around east London (while working as a road safety officer) in 20/30 mph zones, I find them very useful and usually well respected by drivers, unfortunetly not so by P2W riders.
As long as it is safe to filter into them (making sure the lights are not about to change and there is space in them), we encourage their use in order to get away from the congestion and be more visable.
They don’t seem to be enforced, but I personally think “good will” behaviour makes them very useful and they are well used by the cyclists in our area.I have been in Hackney for 5 years and we have always used Stop, Look, Listen and think (using some great resources on the Think website). The only time I refer to the GCC is when I talk to them about my youth and how the same messages are important to them. I find not even the teachers know who the GCC man is these days!
Using S,L,L & T, we adapt the messages to the ages and point out you are never too old for it.Hi Keith,
We have been running social media campaigns since early last year, and wrote to schools in September, all in colaboration with the local Safer transport police team, with updates following the Queen’s speach (and the misconception they will soon be legalised). Unfortunetly it does not seem to have slowed the spread of them, with parents using them to bring children to school, and one teacher charging one in the corner of the classroom as I explained to her year six class the legalities. I have also (with the STT team) made up signs to hang on parked E scooters etc, explaining to the owner the legal implications.Hackney is not participating in any rental schemes, so none are legal on our roads or pavements and there is no conflict there.
I have to say having spent another summer term speaking to year five and six children, that their understanding of the law around them has improved (on avarage only about 10% knew in 2020, but that was closer to 70% this term), and I would say from discussions with the public it’s about the same for adults, but this has not translated to complience.
The Met (having seized almost 4000 between Jan and Nov) were instructed to just advise in Dec 2021 so there is little enforcement going on to support our awareness campaigns.
Sorry not to be able to help more.
Hi Katie,
We offer classroom based ped training EYFS to KS6 for primaries. Unfortunately we or the schools don’t have the resources for any type of practical (other than the little ones getting to use our mini zebra crossing).
While my colleague provides the EYFS/KS1 sessions, I focus on KS2. Part of that is a workshop we run for year fives about mapping safer routes which reinforces the key skills (safer crossing places, Stop-look-listen-think etc) they should have learnt in KS1. Each session is tailored to the individual school and it’s surroundings and also links into the geography curriculum.
I also offer a collision investigation workshop for year six which looks at causation factors and through this also reinforces those key skills. After SATs I offer them our secondary transition workshop which looks at the differences they will face (public transport, peer pressure etc), but again reinforces their key skills, or more exactly encourages them to actually use the skills they have.
All year five and six sessions have a healthy dose of the reality of living in Hackney. Where KS1 and Yr3/4 is about finding a safer place to cross with no parked cars etc, for those traveling independently I believe they need to be taught how to deal with the fact that most of our pavements are covered with vehicles.Anyway, if you would like to discuss any of it further let me know, I’m not precious about this stuff so happy to share lesson plans/presentations and get some feedback. In case it doesn’t come up automatically my email is max.moorcock@hackney.gov.uk
