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PennTraff is most pleased to announce an association with
Ourston Roundabout Engineering
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This is a group of roundabout enthusiasts who are well advanced in the understanding, design and introduction of modern roundabouts in America and Canada. They have many completed schemes and many more under consideration and design. The PennTraff knowledge and experience will strengthen Ourston's mini-roundabout capabilities.

PennTraff
Clive Penn Sawers MA MICE CEng,
Traffic Engineering Consultant
2 Colehayes Park Cottages, Bovey Tracey, Newton Abbot, Devon, UK
TQ13 9LD
Phone+44 (0)1626 830225 (mobile) 07967 148794
E-mail: Penntraff@AOL.com

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Greece update:

At my recent presentations on road safety in developing countries I have been very keen on continuity for pedestrian routes. Below are two images, one of the problem at Hanioti in Greece which appeared at these presentations, and how, some two years later it was rectified - so well done.

Here the new road was operational but pedestrians faced a nasty drop into the river bed below (usually dry)
(September 2006)		 The same but with the footway now extended across the river bed and no danger to pedestrians.
(April 2009)

Ann and I drove down from Thessaloniki around Kassandra in April and noted just how much the roads have improved since 2006 and particularly since my earlier visit in 1998. I believe that this has been widespread and note that the accident rate in Greece is falling. I would like to see a few more roundabouts. There were a few and some had adopted the offside priority rule (yield on entry) while others still had the old yield to the right rule (which does not work well when driving on the right).

Under re-construction

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New Government Road Safety Targets

The UK suffers some 3,000 fatalities each year on its roads. The government believes that reducing the speed limit on most rural A-class roads will be a key factor in addressing these fatalities. The aim is to reduce the fatalities to under 2,000.
(The Times April 21).

In 1990 the government introduced targets to reduce casualties by one third by the year 2000 based on the average of the years 1981-85. This was achieved. A further 40% reduction in serious and fatal casualties was a more recent target.

I have every support for an effective casualty reduction programme. Worldwide some 1.2M men women and children die on our roads. Road danger ranks highly in the World Health Organisation causes of death.

BUT the government would do well to listen more carefully to the experts in the many fields. From 1970 I worked with Frank Blackmore on the development of roundabouts that he had been working on for many years. I still fail to fully understand why he had so many battles with the "men from the ministry" who did not seem to listen. I have had the same experience; working on the new technical memo for roundabouts. H54/07 was finally published some five years after my initial input. Most of what I requested was lost and much that I would not approve of was added. Why? Unless government listens carefully to the experts, these targets will not be met.