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Barnet Council targets dangerous drivers (26 January 2017)

Date: 26/01/2017
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Barnet Council targets dangerous drivers

Barnet Council announced plans to extend Moving Traffic Contraventions enforcement to 14 additional sites in the borough where traffic restrictions exist, in a bid to further target dangerous drivers.

The council says that it will also be introducing more schools into the programme throughout 2017.

The plans form part of the council’s Parking Policy implemented in January 2015, to make Barnet’s roads safer, keep traffic moving and reduce air pollution.

The new locations follow the success of recent enforcement actions, which have seen a two-thirds increase in the number of people complying with parking regulations around schools.

From April 2016, the council has been using CCTV traffic enforcement to monitor nearly 60 locations in a bid to improve road safety – the latest roll out includes tackling areas where offenders ignore no entry signs, park on school zigzags, block yellow box junctions or exceed weight or width restrictions.

Chairman of the Environment Committee, Councillor Dean Cohen, said:

“Protecting children is one of our biggest priorities and ensuring the roads around schools are kept safe is absolutely vital to achieving that.

“Already, we’ve seen an improvement in people’s driving habits, with the number of motorists complying by not parking on yellow zigzags around schools increase by 67%.

“Increasing the number of sites allows us to target specific areas where we know there is a particular problem around road safety and congestion – and then move on once people start complying with the law.

“By improving road safety, traffic congestion and air pollution in this way we know we are making a real impact on residents’ lives.”

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