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£8 Million Funding for Road Safety
The Minister for Economy and Transport, Ieuan Wyn Jones has today (Friday, 3 April) announced grants of £8.1 million for road safety projects across Wales.
Local Authorities will receive a share of the money to allow them to deliver road safety projects including 20mph zones, local road safety co-ordinators and educational initiatives.
Mr Jones said:
This money will allow local authorities to continue their good work in improving road safety throughout Wales.
For Wales as a whole in 2007, the number of people fatally or seriously injured in road collisions was 30% lower than the average for 1994-98, which is good progress towards the 40% reduction target set for 2010.
From the analysis undertaken, it is fair to conclude that the measures introduced by local authorities through the road safety grant have substantially contributed to this casualty reduction.
Mr Jones added:
This grant will also allow local authorities to develop more 20 mph zones, as promised in our One Wales programme of government. Recent evaluation has shown these zones to very effective at reducing accidents.
As of August 2008 there were 438 locations in Wales which were subject to a speed limit of 20mph. An evaluation has shown that there were annual reductions of 42% and 40% personal injury collisions and serious or fatal collisions respectively at 273 of those schemes.
This year’s allocation includes funding for Child Pedestrian Training Co-ordinators for each local authority, who are helping to teach roadside skills to children between 5 and 7 years of age.
A minimum of 20% of their allocation must be used on education, training and publicity initiatives and the rest of the money can be spent on any other road safety projects.
The total grant of £8.129 million has been allocated as follows to each local authority:
Anglesey £217,000
Blaenau Gwent £217,000
Bridgend £367,000
Caerphilly £411,000
Cardiff £880,000
Carmarthenshire £501,000
Conwy £288,000
Ceredigion £218,000
Denbighshire £284,000
Flintshire £435,000
Gwynedd £301,000
Merthyr Tydfil £217,000
Monmouthshire £217,000
Neath Port Talbot £362,000
Newport £346,000
Pembrokeshire £343,000
Powys £325,000
Rhondda Cynon Taf £604,000
Swansea £676,000
Torfaen £217,000
Vale of Glamorgan £335,000
Wrexham £368,000