§ Lord Hogg of Cumbernauldasked Her Majesty's Government:
What is their policy in support of local authorities introducing traffic calming measures in English villages. [HL1798]
§ Lord WhittyIn our Integrated Transport White Paper,A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone (July 1998), we said traffic management, which may include traffic calming, was needed in rural areas to produce better and safer road conditions. Our road 76WA safety strategy document Tomorrow's Roads—Safer for Everyone, published last month, encourages the development of sympathetic traffic calming to support our commitment, given in the strategy, to 30 mph speed limits in villages.
The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions has conducted research, and continues to do so, into appropriate traffic calming designs for use in rural areas. A Traffic Advisory Leaflet is to be published shortly, summarising the findings of a study of nine village calming schemes.