Motorcycles and Vision Zero

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Dear Leeds City Council,

Please provide details of how your implementation of the Vision Zero road safety initiative applies to motorcycles. This should include schemes to improve the safety of motorcyclists, risk assessments for schemes to improve the safety of other road users that may affect motorcycles, and details of any policies to discourage motorcycle use in the interests of safety.

Yours faithfully,

Marcus Houlden

Leeds City Council

Dear Marcus Houlden,

Re: Environmental Information Regulations Request MUHEN9N5K 

I refer to your request to the council received on 16/07/2024 for the
following:

Dear Leeds City Council, Please provide details of how your implementation
of the Vision Zero road safety initiative applies to motorcycles. This
should include schemes to improve the safety of motorcyclists, risk
assessments for schemes to improve the safety of other road users that may
affect motorcycles, and details of any policies to discourage motorcycle
use in the interests of safety.

We will respond to your request in accordance with the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004, within 20 working days, from the day after
your request was received. We will therefore aim to respond to your
request by 13/08/2024.

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Yours sincerely,

Esther Riches

Information Management and Governance,
Integrated Digital Services

Leeds City Council

Dear Marcus Houlden,

 

Re: Environmental Information Regulations Request MUHEN9N5K.

 

I refer to your correspondence to the council and your request for the
following:

 

Please provide details of how your implementation of the Vision Zero road
safety initiative applies to motorcycles. This should include schemes to
improve the safety of motorcyclists.

 

Vision Zero seeks to reduce and prevent injury collisions on its network,
through a data led approach. At the present time, reactive road safety
interventions are identified for funding consideration via Police injury
collision data. This data then helps identify length and sites of concerns
which have a greater injury collision record that the Department for
Transports national average. Each location is then reviewed on a
site-by-site basis, looking into each collision at greater depth, this
would involve reviewing the type of vehicles involves, causation factors,
any patterns to the collisions, which ultimately leads to recommended
engineering, educational or enforcement intervention. 

 

Leeds also conducts ‘cluster’ site reviews across all of its highway
network, which may identify if there have been 3 or more motorcycle or
cycle collisions at a bend, in the dark, within 50m of each other etc.
This data review also enables sites of concerns to be identified, so that
measures can be considered.

 

Risk assessments for schemes to improve the safety of other road users
that may affect motorcycles.

 

All road improvements proposals should have a road ‘safety audits’ which
is undertaken in 4 parts from conception to the completion of a project
and post monitoring. This process independently reviews and challenges the
proposed design, where the safety auditors consider the implication for
all road users, including motorcyclists. 

 

Details of any policies to discourage motorcycle use in the interests of
safety.

 

Leeds City Council do not have any polices on this

 

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I trust that this is self-explanatory.  If you have any queries please
contact me on 0113 3784251, or by return email to [2][Leeds City Council request email].

 

Kind regards

 

Adam O’Connell

Senior Information Governance Officer

Information Request Management 

Information Management and Governance 

t: 0113 378 4251 

e: [email address]

 

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