Thank you for your response, please report any issues re seeding to your local police station. Where you have concerns about a particular road/s, you can contact RoadSafety@glasgow.gov.uk and we will check the speeds using our Speed Analysis tool and if necessary liaise with Police Scotland. We run a speeding campaign each year in partnership with Police Scotland to encourage drivers to slow down in local communities.
All of the above, and the lack of ongoing enforcement. We have the right rules and regulations, but they are not consistently enforced. This leads to habits developing among inconsiderate drivers which endanger all, especically children. Enforce - speeds, parking on pavements, parking on double yellow lines
Pedestrians feel like an afterthought. Too few pedestrian crossings, cars parked on pavements, junctions obscured by parked vehicles, lack of pedestrian crossings. Dipped pavements at crossings often flooded. Barriers to force pedestrians to cross at specific points with too little priority at the lights (see the crowds at Shawlands Cross and the junction of Minard Road and Pollokshaws Road as examples). Currently in Shawlands there is a lot of pavement digging up happening and it's not unusual for there to be a "pavement closed" sign and people expected to just walk along busy roads, often with parked cars so you have to walk right out in the road.
Hi there, the liveable neighbourhoods programme (https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/liveableneighbourhoods) has four themes; Streets for People, Active Travel, Local Town Centres and Everyday Journeys, these which will identify existing activity and propose new interventions to rebalance our streets. We have an ongoing project right now in Shawlands and Strathbungo looking at accessibility and improved connections for walking, wheeling and cycling (https://mansewood-to-shawlands-ln-glasgowgis.hub.arcgis.com/pages/latest-news).
I'd like to see better school zone markers to slow the traffic down around Shawlands Primary School. Cars regularly exceed the safe 20 mph speed limit around the school. Better road markings to indicate one is entering a school zone would help alert drivers for this section of road, which is very busy at peak time. Perhaps this could be done by improved signage in that entire zone and better paint markings on the road. Could that section of the road have yellow zigzag paint markings across both lanes of traffic to highlight the school zone area, rather than just a no loading zone immediately outside the school? Further pedestrian school crossings painted on the road around the school could be put in place. At the moment, there is no painted pedestrian crossing at the top of the hill and though the Lollipop person helps in the morning, this crossing could do with an actual painted pedestrian crossing to help children get across the road safely at other times of the day. Thanks
Hi, thanks for responding; these are all good suggestions. My Road Safety Unit is currently reviewing what else can be done to improve road safety around the school zone in Shawlands.
Listen to the community - I live in an area where local emergency vehicles that are all much bigger and deadlier than standard cars all take the shortest route possible back to base instead of identifying the safest route. This is despite the quickest route involving a blind corner and a road completely unsuitable for larger vehicles. How can we expect standard road users to incorporate safe driving into their daily routines when the only consideration of the emergency services is getting back from a call as quickly as possible without any route planning or risk management?
Thank you for your response, I will raise this matter at the next Go Safe Glasgow road safety partnership meeting. You are correct, sometimes the shortest route isn't the most suitable i.e., passing schools etc - have you contacted your local emergency services to discuss as; I'm sure they would take this on board? Drivers of emergency vehicles are trained to advanced driving level 1 and 2 which basically means they are highly skilled and very hazard aware.
As many have said, there isn't one answer to this. But ultimately, while there are traffic calming measures that can be built, points applied, speed limits reduced, cycle lanes segregated, bollards to prevent rampant pavement parking erected; while cars dominate public space (and right now the vast majority of space is dedicated to them), there is no possible safety. Cars come with a death toll that can not be fully designed or enforced away. We need measures that restrict car use, and make it the more expensive and least convenient option, and keep them away from public spaces as much as reasonably possible. This requires a fundamental reworking of infrastructure, as for example a number of European cities that were built around cars, and now are built around active travel and public transport, have done.
Thank you for your response, our Sustainable Transport and Liveable Neighbourhoods teams are focused on delivering many of the issues you have raised and as per our transport strategy we aim to reduce car vehicle kilometres by 30% by 2030. I note Edinburgh have been discussing measures to prevent SUV's entering certain areas, be interesting to see how that conversation goes. Cars are involved in 70% of all collisions in the city, so a reduction in car use and cars speeds will, as you say, result in a reduction in road casualties.
Thank you for your comments, we are in the process of developing a new road safety campaign to encourage all road users to look out for each other - this will go live n October 2023.
Distracted and dangerous driving has become effectively decriminalised as there is zero enforcement. Even after a spate of pedestrian deaths in Glasgow there was no change in the police or council response. A dashcam portal would allow the public to quickly and easily report driving offences. Following serious incidents the council should investigate how road design contributed to the incident, and redesign to avoid it happening again. Road injuries and deaths are not the cost of doing business, or accidents, but the result of poor driving and poor road design.
Thank you, sadly road deaths in the city increased this year from a 13 year downward trend. Our Road Safety engineers attend the site of every fatal collision with Police Scotland to review the circumstances, including any road design or other factors within our responsibility as a local authority. There are many contributory factors in serious and fatal collisions and these are fully investigated by Police Scotland. We regularly review all collisions in the city using our Key Collision system which allows us to identify any areas of concern through the study of police crash data.
Hello Tom. Although there is no portal for camera footage I would encourge anyone who wants to report a crime to contact 101 and a crime report can be recorded. An enquiry officer will be appointed and they will make arrangements to secure any footage as evidence.
These examples don't cover all bases, and many people will surely want to highlight more than the single issue. Not allowing them to do so calls the entire survey into question. My experience is that too many drivers find traffic regulations inconvenient, so consider they don't apply to them, and there's no enforcement. I've seen cars drive through red lights, drivers fly into rages because a pedestrian has presumed to cross in front of them at a junction, cars continually parked on double yellow lines, which are poorly maintained in my area. When I've chatted to traffic wardens about illegally parked cars they've been instructed to observe the car for ten minutes before applying a ticket, which is wasting so much time when, like every other service in the city, too few people are doing too many tasks.
Annoying that only one option can be chosen but "reckless driving" covers a multitude of sins: speeding, parking on double yellow lines, jumping traffic lights, eating and drinking while driving, using the phone. The move to penalise drivers more robustly will hopefully have some effect on some of them, but so many seem to think they own the road.
Lots of speeding vehicles. Illegal parking on junctions, pavements etc.
Thank you for your response, please report any issues re seeding to your local police station. Where you have concerns about a particular road/s, you can contact RoadSafety@glasgow.gov.uk and we will check the speeds using our Speed Analysis tool and if necessary liaise with Police Scotland. We run a speeding campaign each year in partnership with Police Scotland to encourage drivers to slow down in local communities.
All of the above, and the lack of ongoing enforcement. We have the right rules and regulations, but they are not consistently enforced. This leads to habits developing among inconsiderate drivers which endanger all, especically children. Enforce - speeds, parking on pavements, parking on double yellow lines
Hello Viola, many thanks for your comments throughout, and your points noted.
Pedestrians feel like an afterthought. Too few pedestrian crossings, cars parked on pavements, junctions obscured by parked vehicles, lack of pedestrian crossings. Dipped pavements at crossings often flooded. Barriers to force pedestrians to cross at specific points with too little priority at the lights (see the crowds at Shawlands Cross and the junction of Minard Road and Pollokshaws Road as examples). Currently in Shawlands there is a lot of pavement digging up happening and it's not unusual for there to be a "pavement closed" sign and people expected to just walk along busy roads, often with parked cars so you have to walk right out in the road.
Hi there, the liveable neighbourhoods programme (https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/liveableneighbourhoods) has four themes; Streets for People, Active Travel, Local Town Centres and Everyday Journeys, these which will identify existing activity and propose new interventions to rebalance our streets. We have an ongoing project right now in Shawlands and Strathbungo looking at accessibility and improved connections for walking, wheeling and cycling (https://mansewood-to-shawlands-ln-glasgowgis.hub.arcgis.com/pages/latest-news).
I'd like to see better school zone markers to slow the traffic down around Shawlands Primary School. Cars regularly exceed the safe 20 mph speed limit around the school. Better road markings to indicate one is entering a school zone would help alert drivers for this section of road, which is very busy at peak time. Perhaps this could be done by improved signage in that entire zone and better paint markings on the road. Could that section of the road have yellow zigzag paint markings across both lanes of traffic to highlight the school zone area, rather than just a no loading zone immediately outside the school? Further pedestrian school crossings painted on the road around the school could be put in place. At the moment, there is no painted pedestrian crossing at the top of the hill and though the Lollipop person helps in the morning, this crossing could do with an actual painted pedestrian crossing to help children get across the road safely at other times of the day. Thanks
Hi, thanks for responding; these are all good suggestions. My Road Safety Unit is currently reviewing what else can be done to improve road safety around the school zone in Shawlands.
Listen to the community - I live in an area where local emergency vehicles that are all much bigger and deadlier than standard cars all take the shortest route possible back to base instead of identifying the safest route. This is despite the quickest route involving a blind corner and a road completely unsuitable for larger vehicles. How can we expect standard road users to incorporate safe driving into their daily routines when the only consideration of the emergency services is getting back from a call as quickly as possible without any route planning or risk management?
Thank you for your response, I will raise this matter at the next Go Safe Glasgow road safety partnership meeting. You are correct, sometimes the shortest route isn't the most suitable i.e., passing schools etc - have you contacted your local emergency services to discuss as; I'm sure they would take this on board? Drivers of emergency vehicles are trained to advanced driving level 1 and 2 which basically means they are highly skilled and very hazard aware.
As many have said, there isn't one answer to this. But ultimately, while there are traffic calming measures that can be built, points applied, speed limits reduced, cycle lanes segregated, bollards to prevent rampant pavement parking erected; while cars dominate public space (and right now the vast majority of space is dedicated to them), there is no possible safety. Cars come with a death toll that can not be fully designed or enforced away. We need measures that restrict car use, and make it the more expensive and least convenient option, and keep them away from public spaces as much as reasonably possible. This requires a fundamental reworking of infrastructure, as for example a number of European cities that were built around cars, and now are built around active travel and public transport, have done.
Thank you for your response, our Sustainable Transport and Liveable Neighbourhoods teams are focused on delivering many of the issues you have raised and as per our transport strategy we aim to reduce car vehicle kilometres by 30% by 2030. I note Edinburgh have been discussing measures to prevent SUV's entering certain areas, be interesting to see how that conversation goes. Cars are involved in 70% of all collisions in the city, so a reduction in car use and cars speeds will, as you say, result in a reduction in road casualties.
lack of courtesy and lack of appreciation of other road users.
Thank you for your comments, we are in the process of developing a new road safety campaign to encourage all road users to look out for each other - this will go live n October 2023.
Many thanks for your contribution. Would you be able to tell us more about these negative encounters you experience on the roads?
Distracted and dangerous driving has become effectively decriminalised as there is zero enforcement. Even after a spate of pedestrian deaths in Glasgow there was no change in the police or council response. A dashcam portal would allow the public to quickly and easily report driving offences. Following serious incidents the council should investigate how road design contributed to the incident, and redesign to avoid it happening again. Road injuries and deaths are not the cost of doing business, or accidents, but the result of poor driving and poor road design.
Thank you, sadly road deaths in the city increased this year from a 13 year downward trend. Our Road Safety engineers attend the site of every fatal collision with Police Scotland to review the circumstances, including any road design or other factors within our responsibility as a local authority. There are many contributory factors in serious and fatal collisions and these are fully investigated by Police Scotland. We regularly review all collisions in the city using our Key Collision system which allows us to identify any areas of concern through the study of police crash data.
Hello Tom. Although there is no portal for camera footage I would encourge anyone who wants to report a crime to contact 101 and a crime report can be recorded. An enquiry officer will be appointed and they will make arrangements to secure any footage as evidence.
These examples don't cover all bases, and many people will surely want to highlight more than the single issue. Not allowing them to do so calls the entire survey into question. My experience is that too many drivers find traffic regulations inconvenient, so consider they don't apply to them, and there's no enforcement. I've seen cars drive through red lights, drivers fly into rages because a pedestrian has presumed to cross in front of them at a junction, cars continually parked on double yellow lines, which are poorly maintained in my area. When I've chatted to traffic wardens about illegally parked cars they've been instructed to observe the car for ten minutes before applying a ticket, which is wasting so much time when, like every other service in the city, too few people are doing too many tasks.
Many thanks for your contribution. Of the issues you described, is there one that you find has the most significant impact on you as a road user?
Annoying that only one option can be chosen but "reckless driving" covers a multitude of sins: speeding, parking on double yellow lines, jumping traffic lights, eating and drinking while driving, using the phone. The move to penalise drivers more robustly will hopefully have some effect on some of them, but so many seem to think they own the road.
Many thanks for your contribution. Of the issues you described, is there one that you find has the most significant impact on you as a road user?