Lee Waters, Deputy Minister for Climate Change
One of the main factors deterring people from walking and cycling is not feeling safe. Improving road safety will not only help to reduce the number of people who are seriously injured and killed on our roads every year, but it will also help to encourage more people to cycle or walk, instead of using the car for shorter journeys.
We will be developing a new road safety strategy, which will complement Llwybr Newydd: the Wales Transport Strategy 2021 and the National Transport Delivery Plan. We believe that road safety should become part of the remit for the new Corporate Joint Committees as part of their regional transport plans.
The new strategy will include new ways of thinking about and understanding of road safety, incorporating latest international thinking, including Vision Zero and the Safe System.
We have today (15 December 2022) published a final review of the existing Road Safety Framework and will now begin work to draft a new strategy and delivery plan.
For further information please select the following link Written Statement: Road Safety Strategy (15 December 2022) | GOV.WALES