Safer Streets: road safety, good practice and knowledge sharing Kensington High Street Challenging convention Mahmood Siddiqi Bi-Borough Director for.

Safer Streets: road safety, good practice and knowledge sharing

Kensington High StreetChallenging convention

Mahmood Siddiqi

Bi-Borough Director for Transport and Highways

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

Kensington High StreetChallenging convention

Why change?

What did we do differently

Would we do it again?

Effective accident reduction measures?

Establish priority and segregate

(c) Ben Hamilton-Baillie

Impact on the public realm of a ‘more is more’ approach

fussy paving

street clutter

road marking

coloured surfacing

Ground rules for Kensington High Street

simplicity

consistency

quality

clutter-free

Rectilinear kerb line

Simplified junctions

afterbefore

Low-maintenance street furniture

Attention to detail

Guardrailing removed…

... even on staggered pedestrian crossings

• statutory regs met

• advice/ guidance/ practice rejected

Accidents

Casualties went down at a

faster rate than the rest of

the borough

Before: average annual rate between March 98 and February 2001

After: average annual rate between September 2003 and March 2005

Drop in casualties ‘before and after’ scheme

-22

-26

-14

-18

-43

-25 -26

-35

-64

-18

-35

-44

-70

-60

-50

-40

-30

-20

-10

0

Pedestrian Cyclists Motorcyles All

%

London

RBKC

KHS

Streetscape policy

Manual for Streets – place & movement

traffic@rbkc.gov.uk