Welcoming Roads


Welcoming Roads

MAG asks the next Government to adopt a Welcoming Roads approach to road safety.

 

Making the statement that you oppose Vision Zero (the dream of achieving zero road casualties) may seem counter-intuitive at first and certainly leads to straw man arguments that we support more death on the roads.  That is the all-too-common response to a genuine effort to improve road safety for all road users.

When it comes to the safety of motorcyclists there is an insidious double standard increasingly manifest in the Vision Zero approach to road safety.  Whilst claiming to have the best interests of all road users at heart, Vision Zero continually states a preference for changing modal choice rather than improving the safety of all modes.  Policymakers have subordinated the safety of motorcyclists to their desire for social engineering.  Hierarchies of “consideration” consistently write motorcyclists out of the equation entirely or, at best, throw their interests into a blanket silo of choices they wish to actively discourage.

The example diagram – a proposed hierarchy from the road safety strategy of a council signed up to the Vision Zero approach – clearly shows that the motorcyclist is not even listed in the order of “consideration” for road safety interventions.  Sadly, this is a common and increasingly expected output from the Vision Zero drive to promote certain transport choices rather than seek the best safety policy for motorcyclists.

MAG launched Welcoming Roads to create a realignment of a road safety trend that inherently under-delivers for the road user group that is undeniably in need of the greatest support when it comes to safety.  https://wiki.mag-uk.org/images/6/66/Welcoming_Roads_2021_06.pdf

MAG launched Welcoming Roads to create a realignment of a road safety trend that inherently under-delivers for the road user group that is undeniably in need of the greatest support when it comes to safety.  https://wiki.mag-uk.org/images/6/66/Welcoming_Roads_2021_06.pdf

MAG asks the next Government to adopt a Welcoming Roads approach to road safety. Riders want their safety to have equal priority in a way that reduces division, judgement, and entitlement. Government can achieve that by embracing the Welcoming Roads approach to road safety, and a genuine Move on Motorcycling

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