Reposted by Jon Freer
Very important line here from Transport Secretary Louise Haigh on road safety:
"We treat road safety in a way as if it is somehow a natural accident. If the number of people being killed or seriously injured on our roads, were being killed in any other way, we'd be treating it as a pandemic."
"We treat road safety in a way as if it is somehow a natural accident. If the number of people being killed or seriously injured on our roads, were being killed in any other way, we'd be treating it as a pandemic."
November 13, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Very important line here from Transport Secretary Louise Haigh on road safety:
"We treat road safety in a way as if it is somehow a natural accident. If the number of people being killed or seriously injured on our roads, were being killed in any other way, we'd be treating it as a pandemic."
"We treat road safety in a way as if it is somehow a natural accident. If the number of people being killed or seriously injured on our roads, were being killed in any other way, we'd be treating it as a pandemic."
Reposted by Jon Freer
Concerns over this were well-founded, sadly, as job postings go online for West Midlands' road safety commissioner and active travel commissioner ... for £10k honorariums, working a day a week apiece.
This is obviously a major downgrading of the active travel commissioner role
This is obviously a major downgrading of the active travel commissioner role
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Is cycling and walking being shafted in the West Midlands? Mayor distances himself from "downgraded" voluntary road safety job ad that has since disappeared
Richard Parker denied involvement in the short-lived job posting, with one active travel campaigner saying that replacing a full-time Walking and Cycling Commissioner role with a voluntary one would b...
road.cc
November 5, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Concerns over this were well-founded, sadly, as job postings go online for West Midlands' road safety commissioner and active travel commissioner ... for £10k honorariums, working a day a week apiece.
This is obviously a major downgrading of the active travel commissioner role
This is obviously a major downgrading of the active travel commissioner role