This event will explore how the current political and financial obstacles to implementing safer junctions and side roads can be overcome.

About the event

What do Local Transport Note 1/20, the 2022 Highway Code update and innovative practice by some local authorities have in common? They all seek to make it safer and easier for people walking, wheeling and cycling to cross side street junctions.

Nevertheless, across the UK, these junctions remain locations where collisions and near misses are common and which thereby supress the potential for increased active travel. Efforts to address these problems are localised, several design issues remain contentious, and scheme costs are a challenge. Beneficial regulatory change is also painfully slow.

This conference and exhibition will bring together experienced practitioners who will clarify the key issues and obstacles at stake but also show, through reference to real-life examples, how innovative measures can make side street junctions safer and more convenient for active travel by taming motor traffic without affecting highway capacity.

What's going to be discussed:

• Why some junctions and crossings are so dangerous

• Developing policies that pave the way for real change

• Innovative ways of designing safer junctions and crossings

• The case for continuous crossings

• How to fund schemes

• Challenging the 'culture war' myths around road safety improvements

• Measuring the benefits of safer junctions and crossings

• Why safe junctions and crossings are key to developing continuous cycling routes

Why attend?

This groundbreaking event will address the key issues around creating safer crossings and junctions as well as being an excellent opportunity for knowledge-sharing and making new contacts.

Who Should attend?

• Transport planners;
• highways and transport engineers;
• road safety and road danger reduction practitioners;
• urban planners;
• and those working in urban regeneration