December 2009
12/21/2009
Government ministers from 70 countries gathered in Moscow for the first-ever Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in November and pledged to gear up road safety efforts and formally ask the United Nations to declare 2011-2020 the "Decade of Action for road safety." ...
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12/17/2009
New proposals to allow councils to put in place 20 mph schemes over groups of streets without the need for traffic calming measures such as speed humps were announced today by Road Safety Minister Paul Clark.The Government is encouraging local ...
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12/17/2009
A new report issued by Autoglass shows that:- One in four motorists have suffered from a missile hitting their vehicle
- 81% of motorists have seen people throwing objects into the road during the last five years
- 89% of motorists haven’t ...
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12/16/2009
Hampshire County Council’s Village 30 project, is an ongoing community scheme to reduce speed.Revised Department for Transport (DfT) guidance (Setting Local Speed Limits DfT Circular 01/2006) makes it clear that ‘villages should have comparable speed limits to similar roads in ...
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12/15/2009
The UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen is looking at ways to achieve cost effective greenhouse gas emissions from transport in a key meeting which aims to build on the approach taken by the 50by50 campaign run by the FIA ...
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