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Vision Zero: road safety from the green transport toolkit

Sean Corker, Manchester M41
16 September 2016
 

Professor Allsop was correct in stating that Vision Zero won’t achieve its aim of eliminating casualties (Viewpoint LTT 19 Aug). Follow-up letters by various vested interests only confirm and reinforce this view.

Vision Zero, at least in its UK iteration, is little more then a public relations exercise designed to resuscitate failing road safety policies that will not deliver the aim of zero casualties. Here are some reasons:

Reduced speed limits: the aim of reducing speed limits is...

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