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Transport Questions: Devolving more road safety powers to local authorities

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Thursday, 21 March, 2019
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To help push the Transport Select Committee’s ideas from our inquiry on Active Travel, I asked the Transport Minister what more can be done to ensure that safety projects can be delivered by local authorities to help cyclists and walkers.

There are too many examples of good projects, which would make for safer travel, being stifled because they do not meet stringent safety requirements.

This means we either have expensive solutions or, more often than not, no safety solutions at all. I was encouraged by the response, and grateful that new funding was announced of the back of my original question. 

You watch the exchange below:

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Bexhill and Battle is connected to the rest of the country by two main trunk roads – the A259 (linked to A27) and the A21. Both these roads are managed by Highways England and are almost entirely single carriageway throughout the constituency and the rest of East Sussex. East Sussex has only 11.9km of dual carriageway throughout the whole county. Major road infrastructure improvements are needed in our area if we are to create a safer road network and increase the flow of investment in jobs, businesses and housing in our community.

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