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Country Mile Project
Devon County Council is one of four Beacon authorities each to receive £1.5m from the Department for Transport to gather information about key problems facing drivers on their rural roads and develop innovative strategies to improve safety by March 2010. The strategies will include a range of education, enforcement and engineering measures.
The Country Mile Project aims to identify good practice for local highway authorities in developing and implementing an area wide, data-led, strategy for addressing road casualty reduction in rural areas. It is proposed that good practice guidance developed from the knowledge gained during the project will then be shared with other highway authorities.
The area between Exeter and Barnstaple, bordered by the A361, A377 and A396, has been identified as a suitable demonstration site, offering a mixture of rural road characteristics, driver/rider challenges, user types, traffic flows and speeds and collisions that can generally be regarded as recognisable for the remainder of rural Devon.
Date for your diary – Wednesday 22nd October 2008, Project Launch
On Wednesday 22nd October the Country Mile project will be formally launched at the Fox & Hounds Hotel, Eggesford.
Although work on the project has already begun - mainly to gather the data and intelligence needed to guide our work - we will use the 22nd October as an opportunity to launch the project publicly. The day will be a two part briefing on the purpose, the range and the likely content of the project.
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Devon County Council
Road Safety Team
Lucombe House
County Hall
Exeter
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