Safe Streets for London: the road safety action plan for London 2020

The Safe Streets for London programme of actions will focus on delivering safe roads, safe vehicles and safe people through partnership.

The commitments made in the publication include:

Safe roads
• TfL will identify and address ‘critical list’ junctions and locations on the Transport for London Road Network (TLRN) and borough roads that require improvement.
• TfL’s Better Junctions programme, to increase safety at junctions for cyclists, will see funding increased five-fold from £19m to £100m.
• TfL will upgrade and improve London’s safety camera network, replacing old ‘wet film’ cameras with new, more efficient digital technology.
• TfL will support, and fund via Local Implementation Plans (LIPs), the installation of 20mph zones and limits on borough roads across London and include the TLRN where possible.
• To provide updated guidance on design for cycling improvements.
• Wider application of SCOOT (Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique) signalling technology will be rolled out, to improve signal timings for all road users, including cyclists and pedestrians.
• More blind spot safety mirrors will be installed to help improve visibility of
cyclists for large goods vehicle drivers.
• Pedestrian countdown at traffic signals will be rolled out to more locations.

Safe vehicles
• TfL will bring together vehicle manufacturers and safety technology developers to establish a London Vehicle Innovation Task Force.
• TfL will lobby at a local, national and European level to push for improvements to vehicle design and driver safety checks.
• The Greater London Authority (GLA), TfL and Crossrail will further develop contractual powers to improve cycle safety, ensuring supply chain compliance with a five-point safety plan.
• TfL will study the experience of cities such as Paris and Dublin, where lorries over a certain size are restricted from certain parts of the city, or at certain times of the day.
• TfL will challenge conventional thinking and drive change in the construction and logistics sectors through working with the Government and Health and Safety Executive to ensure contractors take ownership of road risks
• New technology will be trialled (such as using radio frequency identification tags)
to improve cyclist safety with visible or audible warning alerts to drivers and
cyclists, and technologies for smaller fleets and work trips such as in-car
data recorders and driver profilers.
• TfL will promote effective technologies with businesses and the insurance industry to
quicken their uptake in vehicles in London.
• TfL will update, maintain, and make freely available, a digital speed limit map of all London’s roads and promote its use with technology developers and manufacturers, enabling a revolution in intelligent speed assistance technology.

Safe people
• Increased policing and enforcement will crack down on those who break the law, with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Cycle Task Force to be expanded by more than a quarter from 39 to 50 officers.
• New, innovative marketing and education resources will focus on improving the safety of children, cyclists, pedestrians, younger drivers and motorcyclists.
• TfL will push for speed awareness courses to be offered to drivers as an alternative to prosecution for exceeding a 20mph speed limit.
• Improved Children’s Traffic Club and JRSO schemes will be rolled out, with every primary school in London offered support in developing a JRSO scheme.
• TfL and London boroughs will offer school cycle training to every school pupil in London every year, with support for boroughs to extend child and adult cycle training.