Overview 

Local Transport Note (LTN) 1/20 provides national guidance for highway authorities and designers and aims to help cycling become a form of mass transit in many more places. Cycling must no longer be treated as marginal, or an afterthought. It must not be seen as mainly part of the leisure industry, but as a means of everyday transport.  It must be placed at the heart of the transport network, with the capital spending, road space and traffic planners’ attention befitting that role.  The guidance delivers on Government commitment to boost design standards and improve safety. It sets out the much higher standards now expected and describes some of the failings common in the past, which will be strongly discouraged in future.  The Department for Transport will reserve the right to ask for appropriate funding to be returned for any schemes built in a way which is not consistent with the guidance.  In short, schemes which do not follow this guidance will not be funded.

• Cycling by Design is due to follow shortly so will this have the same commitments?
• Can RSA and cycle route design work together?

Who is this event for? 

This is primarily for SoRSA members of any role or level. 

Why you should attend? 

• CPD 
• Q&A Session
• Guidance & Best Practice

Speaker

Peter Leslie

Associate Director - AECOM

Peter has 20 years’ experience of Transportation Engineering with a particular focus on Active Travel. Peter is currently project managing five QuietRoute projects for City of Edinburgh Council and since joining AECOM has led over 30 projects ranging from multi-million-pound road resurfacing programmes to Places for Everyone projects. Peter previously worked for Transport Planning and Engineering where he led a team which delivered feasibility, detailed design and site supervision for active travel schemes throughout Scotland.

Peter has a breadth experience in delivering projects from start to finish, he has completed multi-million-pound funding submissions for active travel projects whilst delivering over 100kms of built active travel infrastructure. Peter has experience of all stages of projects and in particular land acquisition, monitoring, tender document creation, tender process and site supervision.