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"Riskiest roads for children revealed"

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  1. chdot
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    The second highest was 
the area around St Mary’s RC Primary in East London Street, off Leith Walk in Edinburgh, with 28.

    ...

    Edinburgh City Council said the figures for the area around St Mary’s RC Primary reflected 
local traffic levels.

    Transport convener Lesley Hinds said: “The surrounding area is extremely busy with 
vehicles, as they take in the streets like Leith Walk and Broughton Street.

    “Road safety around our schools is something we take extremely seriously, as shown by the number of road safety awareness initiatives we run.

    “There is nothing in this data which indicates the collisions relate specifically to the schools themselves, as many 
of these collisions could 
have happened during school holidays.”

    "

    http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/riskiest-roads-for-children-revealed-1-3094109

    Posted 11 years ago #

  2. Disco Dave
    Member

    She fails to mention the increase in traffic using the street as a rat run while York Place was closed.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  3. Min
    Member

    Edinburgh City Council said the figures for the area around St Mary’s RC Primary reflected 
local traffic levels.

    Oh, it is just because there are too many cars. That's fine then. Phew!

    Posted 11 years ago #

  4. crowriver
    Member

    Disco Dave, East London Street has been a rat run for as long as I can remember. I've been walking/cycling round there for 20-odd years. Tramworks are not a major factor here IMHO.

    I presume Drummond High also affected by this traffic?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  5. Morningsider
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    I'm not convinced these statistics show anything meaningful - if you picked any area in a town or city centre and drew a circle with a radius of a third of a mile around that point then you would get a fairly random figure for traffic incidents over a five year period.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  6. crowriver
    Member

    I've had a look at the stats now from the AXA site (use Firefox, Safari doesn't show the postcode search box) and it seems Drmmond does not have a big issue.

    The two schools with the next worst child casualties after St Mary's are Leith Primary (23) and Leith Walk Primary (18). The common factor there is surely proximity to the A900/Leith Walk?

    One can analyse other casualty rates too. For example cyclist casualties within 500m of the school may give an indication of how advisable it is to do the "school run" as a parent by bicycle. The highest numbers of cyclist casualties are:

    Preston Street Primary (54)
    Regius Christian School (52)
    Sciennes Primary (35)
    Dalry Primary (33)
    Royal Blind School (25)

    I was surprised by Sciennes I must admit. Maybe that's a function of location in a different way, in that there are so many cyclists (especially student cyclists) around Marchmont/Sciennes that they are involved in more collisions? Or is it just Melville Drive?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  7. chdot
    Admin

    "I'm not convinced these statistics show anything meaningful"

    That seems to be what LH is saying - so I agree with both of you!

    Bit like "Cycling KSI facts and factors" - don't know if any useful conclusions are possible.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  8. crowriver
    Member

    I don't think it's entirely meaningless either. The fact that AXA are using the data indicates that they may calculate certain insurance premiums and/or compensation based on such data.

    Here's a 500m square around Sciennes Primary as an example: http://goo.gl/maps/k4NEP

    Posted 11 years ago #

  9. chdot
    Admin

    "One can analyse other casualty rates too. For example cyclist casualties within 500m of the school"

    Again unlikely to be mostly child casualties and gives no 'context' - volume of traffic, numbers of cyclists.

    The basic 'finding' is that there is a lot of danger due to motor vehicles - which will be related to number and speed and (probably) individual bits of road layout/facilities.

    I wonder if there are stats for casualties due to 'couldn't be bothered to wait (any longer) for Green Man'.

    CEC, to its credit, is pressing on with more 20mph zones.

    This is not a wilful 'war on motorists'. There is strong support - as shown by comments sent in on the South Side "pilot". They can't all come from Spokes/CCE members!

    Meanwhile the Police are reluctant to enforce LB unhappy enough to object (at least last time).

    Meanwhile ENews finds people to complain about 10% increase (first time in four years?) in parking charges.

    If/when 'we' write to councillors/MSPs, good to mention that it's 'not just about cycling' - it's about the sort of place we want to live/work in and not have pedestrians disadvantaged by barriers and short phases at crossings.

    Also real need to counter 'traffic flow' mentality and point out that 'road space' is disproportionately taken by parked vehicles!

    Whatever they pay, it doesn't adequately cover the social costs.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  10. crowriver
    Member

    If one wanted to pinpoint the exact danger zones, this visialisation of the Stats19 by the Guardian's data blog has been discussed here on CCE before:

    http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2011/nov/18/road-casualty-uk-map

    Posted 11 years ago #

  11. gembo
    Member

    All primary schools except RBS

    Catholic primaries have wider catchment because there are fewer of them, more driving to them

    But this may have very little to do with st Mary's London st being second worst for casulties in Scotland.

    As as been said it is proximity of main road and cut through nature of London st.

    Casulties all year round and all day and night. The schools dictate the Boundaries for the survey and contribute to the presence of children in he area to a more limited extent?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  12. chdot
    Admin

    http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/leith-pupils-at-biggest-risk-on-edinburgh-roads-1-3095090

    Posted 11 years ago #

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