Our response to local leaders’ statements on road safety

Filed under: General

⁠We welcome our city and regional authorities’ renewed commitments to tackling the road safety emergency in response to our open letter. ⁠However, declaring that there is an emergency and therefore admitting we have a serious problem is the easy part.

We’ve been here before. Last year, following another spate of deaths on our roads, we were promised a raft of measures such as reduced speed limits, increased average speed enforcement cameras none of which have been delivered.

We need a clear plan and a concrete timetable for the urgent changes our roads require. We will continue to hold our leaders accountable to ensure no more opportunities for change are missed.

Only through action and collaboration will we start to tackle road safety. This involves every single person that contributes to enforcement and who make changes to our streets.

You can read statements here:

• Letter from cabinet members Cllr Mahmood and Cllr Brennan at Birmingham City Council
• Statement from West Midlands Police
• Statement from Richard Parker, Mayor of the West Midlands
• Statement from Simon Foster, West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner

Better Streets for Birmingham

Better Streets for Birmingham is a community group which campaigns for changes to our travel and planning infrastructure to improve the sustainability, efficiency and safety of our streets. We believe that through connecting Birmingham to reduce car dependency, we will make it a more pleasant place to work, live and play.