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3.6 Safety

What needs to be donePartners we need to work withIndicative costIndicative Timescale
2007 - 20102010 - 20152015 - 2025
S01. Revise Road Safety Plan.
Update Road Safety Plans and produce as a daughter document of the Local Transport Strategy -red (complete by end 2008)  
What needs to be donePartners we need to work withIndicative costIndicative Timescale
2007 - 20102010 - 20152015 - 2025
S02. Improve road user behaviour
Continue to carry out programme of road safety education in schools, e.g. National Cycle Proficiency Test. -greengreengreen
Continue to support the Pass Plus initiative
  • Driving instructors
£6,000 per annumgreengreengreen
Continue to support the DRIVESafe campaign with the Community Planning Partnership
  • CPP
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Continue to participate in national road safety initiatives - such as drink driving, speeding, etc.
  • Road Safety Scotland
  • Police
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Raise awareness of vulnerable road user groups (e.g. cyclists, pedestrians, horse-riders, etc) to motorists
  • Police
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Continue to support the work of the West of Scotland Road Safety Forum and the Strathclyde Safety Camera Partnership
  • Police
  • Partner authorities
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Through introducing postcode information to accident statistics, analyse links between incident and drivers home location.
  • Scottish Executive
-red  
Monitor local crash and casualty trends  red  
What needs to be donePartners we need to work withIndicative costIndicative Timescale
2007 - 20102010 - 20152015 - 2025
S03. Review speed limits.
Review speed limits throughout the network by 2011 and introduce appropriate measures.
  • Police
  • Local communities
-redred (complete by end 2011) 
What needs to be donePartners we need to work withIndicative costIndicative Timescale
2007 - 20102010 - 20152015 - 2025
S04. Improve road safety in sensitive locations.
Continue to implement 20mph limits around schools.
  • Police
£50,000 per annumgreen  
Continue to implement traffic calming measures in residential areas, e.g. Twenty's Plenty initiative
  • Police
  • Local communities
  • Planning authorities
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