Local Action for Healthier Safer Transport 14 November 2002

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Local Action for Healthier Safer Transport14
November 2002

• Frank Baxter
• Association of London Government

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What influence a healthier and safer transport
system

• Access related to cost social exclusion
• Exercise
• Recreation
• Accidents
• Pollution
• Noise

• Stress
• Anxiety
• Crime and Fear to travel
• Loss of land
• Severance of communities

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Local authority policy context Over 70
strategies to consider

• Mayors Transport Strategy
• Other Mayoral Strategies (Air quality)
• Planning Policies (UDP), PPG13 Our Towns and
  Cities the future, delivering an urban
  renaissance.
• Draft London Plan
• Local Agenda 21
• Saving Lives Our Healthier Nation
• European Public Health Strategy
• Community Strategies

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Air quality

• 80 of London pollution cased by traffic
• 380 deaths linked to air pollution in London per
  year
• Designate AQMA and produce Action Plans in MAQS
• Public health is primary concern
• Road side emissions testing
• Low Emission Zone (indicator of multiple
  deprivation)
• Developing clean fuel vehicle policies
• Fleet procurement

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Road Safety
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Boroughs role on road safety

• 280 deaths a year
• Single largest cause of child morbidity
• Statutory duty in Highways Act
• Engineer highway schemes (traffic calming)
• Educate the public (Road Safety Campaign - Bexley
  Road Safety Action Group)
• Encourage the public (Road safety training for
  children and adults)
• Enforcement (safety camera partnership)

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Local Action Transport Heath initiatives

• Travel Plans
• Car Free Housing, Home Zones and Clear Zones
• Safe Routes to School
• Delivery of LCN and walking routes
• Walking buses
• Travel awareness campaigns
• Individualised Based Marketing
• Exercise Referral Fat Blokes Walks

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Barriers to better health, safety and transport

• Continuing dominance of the private car
• MTS accepts halting car growth in outer London is
  big challenge
• Public Attitudes
• Public still prefer the car. 25 of journeys are
  less than two miles
• Media representation
• Thousands of people will die prematurely and
  unnecessarily over the next few years if the
  hostility to speed cameras, shown in recent press
  reporting and statements by the roads lobby, is
  allowed to influence public policy on speeding
  and road safety. David Begg on Aug 30 2001
• Top Gear mentality

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