President's Challenge Statement (June 2020)

Road safety challenges for London in a changing society

Key points: 

• People walking, cycling and using motorcycles in London are over-represented in the numbers of people killed or seriously injured (KSI) on London's roads, accounting for 79% of 2018's KSI casualties.
• Lack of effective regulation in ride hailing cabs and food delivery services and the business models being used is putting drivers and riders in this sector at risk.
• Children from poorer families in London are at much greater risk as pedestrians that those from more affluent families.
• Road safety education and enforcement have both reduced over the last 10 years of austerity measures and road casualty reductions have flatlined - coincidence?
• London is being gripped by rising levels of obesity and downward levels of mental health and wellbeing.  Active travel can improve both of these - but how do we get more people walking and cycling?