A plan to cut road deaths in Glasgow to zero is part of the council’s travel strategy.
The key aims of the strategy are to cut car journeys by 30% in the city and to have no deaths involving pedestrians or cyclists by 2030.As highlighted by the Glasgow Times, between January and May this year there were eight deaths including cyclist Emma Burke Newman, killed after being hit by a lorry on Broomielaw in January.
The Travel Behaviour Change Strategy includes ‘vision zero” where “no-one is killed or seriously injured on our roads, streets, cycleways and footpaths”.has a road safety plan which includes measures like enforcement, engineering, cameras and training to make the roads safer.
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