The Council is responsible for introducing and maintaining physical road safety measures, and for making traffic orders (regulations like speed limits).
A road safety measure needs to reduce:
Accident levels, or
Traffic, or
The impact of commuter parking
Or a road safety measure needs to improve:
Public transport routes, or
Accessibility for the disabled, or
Pedestrian safety, accessibility and convenience, or
Cycling routes, or
Environmental protection
The Council consults residents before introducing new ways to improve road safety.
A formal notice may be published in the press.
A 3 week period is allowed for objections to be received.
Plans may need to be re-designed (and another formal notice published).
The Council enforces parking schemes
The Police enforce traffic orders (i.e. regulations like speed limits)
Chicanes and throttles - reduce carriageway width for a short length
Continuous white lines - must not be crossed
Disabled facilities - tactil paving and knobs
Junction entry treatments - signs to show you are leaving a main road
Kerb build outs - to improve visibility at junctions
One-way streets, banned turns and no entry
Pedestrian crossings - signal crossings
Pelican crossings - signal crossings on roads with high traffic volumes, high speeds or very high pedestrian flows
Pillow humps - a speed control hump wide enough to allow a wide wheelbase vehicle to pass
Road closures
Road junctions - e.g.a give way line or sign
Roundabouts
School crossing patrols
Speed control humps and tables
Traffic islands/pedestrian refuges
Traffic signals and control
White carriageway markings
Width restriction - posts in the road
Zebra crossings