The great guardrail hogwash

Much continues to be written about pedestrian guardrailing, usually either for or against. But is the argument quite so black-and-white, and what advice can designers and decision-makers trust?

More and better guardrails – is that really the best, indeed only, response to Londons (or anywheres) pedestrian casualty issues?

More and better guardrails – is that really the best, indeed only, response to Londons (or anywheres) pedestrian casualty issues?

The same location after guardrail removal. All pedestrian casualties in the street have reduced, with the number killed and seriously injured reducing by a greater proportion. Facts, not allegations

The same location after guardrail removal. All pedestrian casualties in the street have reduced, with the number killed and seriously injured reducing by a greater proportion. Facts, not allegations

Part of Mare Street in Hackney, London, before a street-long guardrail removal programme in August 2007

Part of Mare Street in Hackney, London, before a street-long guardrail removal programme in August 2007

In the previous episode of this estimable organ, you may have read the Viewpoint entitled ‘The great guardrail greenwash’. The ‘pull-quote’ used by the editor highlighted the author’s very definite opinion that the Department for Transport’s Local Transport Note 2/09 on Pedestrian Guardrailing comprises a “mix of pseudo-science, greenwash and error”. However, the Viewpoint is so full of its own pseudo-science and error that I’d barely know...

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