Mark Pack

Success for Caroline Pidgeon’s cycling safety campaign as new lights to be tested

By | Sun 16th September 2012 - 12:15 pm

As the Evening Standard reports there’s good news for one of the issues London Assembly member Caroline Pidgeon has been campaigning for with others:

Traffic lights for cyclists are to be brought in under plans to improve safety on the capital’s streets.

Transport for London has pledged to test the Dutch-style lights, which will be at eye-level and could be staggered to give bikes a head start…

TfL chiefs are holding talks with the Department for Transport about installing the equipment as it would require a law change. But managing director for surface transport Leon Daniels suggested that TfL would press ahead with a trial regardless.

The bike traffic lights, which could feature a green light with a bicycle logo rather than the exisiting “all traffic” signals, are also used in Germany, France, Denmark, Spain and the US…

In a letter to Caroline Pidgeon, leader of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly, Mr Daniels added: “If approval of an on-street trial cannot be granted before 2014, TfL will look to carrying out off-street trials instead.”

Ms Pidgeon, who has been campaigning for cycle safety measures, said: “The Department for Transport must allow TfL to catch up with best international practice.”

* Mark Pack is Party President and is the editor of Liberal Democrat Newswire.

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