The Country Mile Project

The 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.

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Thank you to everyone who entered our competition to win a hlaf-day rural driving course. Winners will be announced soon.

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Visit our cornering clinic website at www.corneringclinic.com which has vodcast clips to help bikers improve performance whilst increasing safety margins.

The aim is to demonstrate good practice through the best use of forward planning, positioning, braking, gears, throttle control, anticipating and planning for other road users.

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