The national road safety targets are ‘insufficiently challenging’, according to MPs this week.
The transport select committee delivered a withering verdict on the DfT’s performance over the last year, claiming that the target to cut the numbers killed and seriously injured on England’s roads had been shown to be unambitious, after London achieved it five years early.
The report urges the department to take a more proactive role and press local highway authorities to introduce 20mph zones.
Backbenchers, again, despaired at the DfT plan to reduce penalties for speeding on 30mph roads, given that this ‘flies in the face of evidence that this will cause casualties to increase’.