South Lanarkshire Council has gained a nationwide award for its efforts in highway security and site visitors administration.
On the Highway Security Discussion board on Tuesday (November 1) councillors heard of the work carried out by the native authority in selling highway security.
It's that work which led to the council changing into the winner of the ‘handiest highway security, site visitors administration and enforcement’ class as a part of the Scottish Transport Awards 2022.
Councillor Susan Kerr (Avondale and Stonehouse) welcomed the work. and mentioned:: “Congrats for the award from Scottish Transport Awards for being recognised for being the simplest highway security administration enforcement, I believe that’s actually excellent and implausible.”
The council has carried out work and imposed measures to slot in line with the Scottish Authorities’s ‘Scotland’s Highway Security Framework to 2030,’ which was launched in February.
The framework units out nationwide targets and measures for casualty discount with the long-term objective of zero fatalities and critical accidents in highway transport by 2050.
South Lanarkshire Council has launched its personal strategy to satisfy the Scottish Authorities targets.
A spread of measures have been launched. This contains the 4 ‘E’s of highway security, that are training, engineering, enforcement and encouragement to reinforce highway security and scale back accidents and casualties.
The council additionally receives particulars of recorded damage accidents occurring on the roads from Police Scotland and makes use of it to evaluate highway security enquiries and to focus on assets and enhancements the place three or extra damage accidents happen within the earlier three years, or on routes which have an damage accident price higher than the nationwide common for the kind of route.
The council additionally has a Route Motion Plan Evaluation the place an evaluation of rural routes is performed on an annual foundation, the place roads are checked out in sections to find out if they've an accident price higher than the nationwide common. This supplies a higher precedence to areas experiencing extra critical casualties.
In step with the Scottish Authorities framework, a further strategy was taken by the council in direction of focusing on highway security interventions the place the main focus is positioned on the susceptible highway customers which embrace kids, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, highway customers aged 70 and over, highway customers between 17 to 25 and in areas of highest deprivation.
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