Critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling

Publication Year

2025

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides illustrated guidance on critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling. There were 16 issues identified in Active Travel England's route check tool covering: conflict at side roads and priority junctions; conflict at roundabouts and signal junctions; lane widths; trip hazards; kerbside activity; provision of crossings; standard of crossings; motor traffic speed; motor traffic volume; pedestrian crossing speed; footway widths; effective width next to tram lines; crossing angle of tram/train rails; cycling surface and maintenance defects; walking/wheeling surface and maintenance defects; and guard railing.

Document History

Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/critical-safety-issues-for-walking-wheeling-and-cycling/critical-safety-issues-for-walking-wheeling-and-cycling and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 6 November 2025.

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