Issue - meetings

From 2007/08, national safety camera funding has been integrated into the Second Local Transport Plan (LTP2) funding system. This report sets out a proposal for allocating the additional road safety funding in the 2008/09 financial year.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised:

(i)           That the proposal for allocating the additional road safety funding in the 2008/09 financial year, as set out in Annex A of the report, be approved, subject to the inclusion of the Live Now, Drive Later campaign by The Press in the road safety programme.

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:The Council has a target to achieve a 45% reduction in killed and serious injury casualties by 2010. The proposal should contribute towards this casualty reduction target and will help to ensure that the Council is successful in securing the road safety grant funding source until 2010/11. The proposal ensures that the grant allocation is spent on road safety behaviour change projects linked to the evidence base.

Members received a report which sets out a proposal for allocating the additional road safety funding in the 2008/09 financial year, following the integration of national safety camera funding into the Second Local Transport Plan (LTP2) funding system from 2007/08.

Members welcomed the progress made and the reduction in the number of casualties.  They highlighted the need to include The Press’s Live Now, Drive Later campaign in the road safety programme.

Members highlighted the need for all secondary schools in York to take up the SMARTRISK production and also suggested that it be offered to colleges.  They sought clarification as to whether accidents where an ambulance had attended, but not the police, were included in the figures provided.¹  They also queried whether there were sufficient funds reserved to support the use of mobile speed cameras if recommended by the Police Authority and the Assistant Director (City Development & Transport) confirmed that these could be funded via the Capital Programme.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised:

(i)           That the proposal for allocating the additional road safety funding in the 2008/09 financial year, as set out in Annex A of the report, be approved, subject to the inclusion of the Live Now, Drive Later campaign by The Press in the road safety programme.²

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:The Council has a target to achieve a 45% reduction in killed and serious injury casualties by 2010. The proposal should contribute towards this casualty reduction target and will help to ensure that the Council is successful in securing the road safety grant funding source until 2010/11. The proposal ensures that the grant allocation is spent on road safety behaviour change projects linked to the evidence base.