Somerset Council hints at change in speed limit strategy and improvement for roads

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A draft document published by Somerset Council hints at a new focus on improving safety on our local roads. The Somerset Local Transport Plan states the council's primary objectives will include:-

- Deliver a walking, wheeling and cycling county by growing the network of attractive routes and street designs that prioritise people.

- Safer streets for all, with a target of 50% reduction in those killed or seriously injured (KSIs) on Somerset’s roads by 2030.

- Provide safer access to schools so more children and young people can walk and wheel to school.

In our rural towns and villages, that means better-maintained pavements and more of them, lower speed limits, more crossings and money for improvement schemes like the Strawberry Line.

You can read the full draft and have your say on the consultation here: Local Transport Plan 2025/6

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