A team from the London Road Safety Council supported the Healthy City Streets event on 4 July, organised by the City of London Road Danger Reduction Team and the Active City Network.
The ‘Quietway & Healthy City Streets’ event was staged in a bid to ‘engender better communication between different road users, and promote newly completed active travel infrastructure in the Square Mile’.
The event comprised an afternoon of music, rides and guided walks along the City of London’s ‘Quietway’. Other activities included bike security marking, music performances by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as well as various stalls and stands including one manned by the LRSC team.
The outdoor activities were followed by a brief conference, panel discussion and networking and drinks reception in the Guildhall Crypts.
A wide selection of road safety resources (available for purchase on the LRSC website) and a brochure giving background information about the LRSC, were on display and attracted attention from many visitors throughout the afternoon.
The LRSC’s ever-popular free reflectors, designed to be attached to children’s backpacks and satchels as a safety aid while walking to school, were also handed out.
One reflector even ended up on the briefcase of the London’s first walking and cycling commissioner, Dr Will Norman, a keynote speaker at the conference which followed later in the day.
Cllr Geoff Walker, vice chair of the LRSC Business Committee, said:
“Blazing sunshine made for a hot and sunny afternoon, interspersed with frequent gusts of wind seeking to blow our display items across the Guildhall Yard, and tipping our display banner all over the place – albeit bringing a welcome blast of cooling air to our stall.
“Pleasant live classical music from a quartet of students from the Guildhall School of Music, served to entertain us as the afternoon progressed, and various displays and a large lorry, demonstrating the visual hazards for drivers and cyclists, provided support and interest for the many and various cycling enthusiasts in attendance.”