Department for Transport written question – answered at on 21 July 2020.
Geraint Davies
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Substitute Member)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many local authorities have made changes to road layouts to give more space to cyclists and pedestrians since the publication of the Department for Transport’s statutory guidance to local authorities under the Traffic Management Act 2004.
Rachel Maclean
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
It is for local traffic authorities to decide what measures to install to enable social distancing and active travel, and the Department does not maintain a record of local authorities that have implemented such changes. There are measures available to local authorities that can be implemented to widen pavements and that do not require extra powers or approval from the Department. For example, some authorities have used cones or barriers to reallocate part of the road to pedestrians as a temporary measure.
Yes2 people think so
No4 people think not
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