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6. Safety and security on the transport networks
More funding for road safety, invested in the most effective and innovative
schemes
• Major infrastructure improvements as part of the Mayor’s £4bn investment in
the Road Modernisation Plan, including: the Better Junctions Programme, in
which 33 of the worst performing junctions for cyclists will be redesigned; and
the development of the North-South and East-West Cycle Superhighways
Increase efforts with the police, boroughs and enforcement agencies in tackling
dangerous and careless road user behaviour that puts people at risk
• Road safety operations with the Metropolitan Police Service Roads and
Transport Policing Command (RTPC), where hundreds of officers are deployed
to junctions across London to advise road users and enforce the rules of the
road as part of Operation Safeway.
• Operation Winchester was a month long campaign to firstly engage with
motorcyclists, and later provide increased enforcement and presence to reduce
risky behaviours.
• Targeting the most dangerous commercial vehicles through the Industrial HGV
task force, funded by TfL and the DfT. In 2014, the Task Force conducted
roadside operations that stopped 2,928 vehicles, issued 1,174 penalty notices
and seized 25 vehicles
Campaign for changes in national and EU law
• TfL is lobbying the DfT to revise the Highway Code to better promote the safety
of pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. We are lobbying the DfT for the
ability to civilly enforce advanced stop lines and mandatory cycle lanes. We will
continue to ask the DfT for the Traffic Signs and Regulations General Directions
to allow greater flexibility in road and signage design.
• TfL is asking the European Commission to mandate pedestrian Automated
Emergency Braking and Intelligent Speed Assistance in all new cars. TfL is also
asking that the General Safety Regulations include ambitious requirements on
direct driver vision for HGVs
Work in partnership with boroughs and stakeholders to improve best practice and
share data and information
• TfL has provided London boroughs with free access to road safety data through
MAST (Market Analysis and Segmentation Tools), an advanced online road
safety analysis tool. MAST allows users to gain insights into collisions using a
socio-demographic database, to help target marketing and behaviour change
campaigns and to monitor trends in road safety.
• In September 2015 TfL launched the Capital's first interactive digital collision
map at www.collisionmap.london, which is part of a continued drive to improve
road safety awareness to reduce the number of casualties on London’s roads.
This creates a useful new way to inform road users about junctions with high
collision histories and aiding improvement work in line with TfL's commitment
to improve transparency for customers and stakeholders.
Open data
There are many benefits in making road safety data open such as enabling members
of the public and stakeholders to interrogate, monitor and more effectively track
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