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Guardrails: a faith-based road safety measure

John Adams - Emeritus professor of geography, University College London, WC1E
23 September 2011
 

Doug Stewart says that “it is wholly plausible that removing guardrails from the 808 sites of Transport for London’s removal scheme has increased casualties by more than 1,000 per year”.

The most recent TfL casualty report reveals a total of 5,127 pedestrian casualties of all severities in 2008 – down from an average of 9,292 for the period 1994-1998.

Stewart is asking us to believe that, but for the removal of guardrails on less than one percent of the length of...

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