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The DfT should be monitoring effects of guardrail removal

Doug Stewart - Peterculter, Aberdeen, AB14
09 September 2011
 

Professor John Adams joins the guardrail debate by stating that guardrails have been removed from only a small part of London’s street network. However, his inference that removing them would have had little effect does not follow.

The London Road Safety Unit study of guardrails confirmed that erecting them reduces pedestrian casualties by 1.4 per year per site, on average, so it is wholly plausible that removing guardrails from the 808 sites of Transport for London’s removal scheme...

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