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Equality Impact Assessment - Highway Network Improvements
1. What is the name of the function, policy or service that is being assessed?
Highway Network Improvements
2. What are the aims of the function, policy or service? Whose needs it is designed to meet? What are the current priorities?
Current priorities are to selectively improve the highway network for all road users. Current priorities are to reduce the number of casualties from road accidents and to improve journey time reliability on the A350.
3. In what ways might this function, policy or service affect some groups of people differently? Might some groups find it harder to access the service? Do some groups have particular needs that are not well met by the current policy or service? Please ensure that you comment against each of the dimensions listed below and where no issues are identified that you state this clearly against the relevant dimension.
Disabled users of footways and uncontrolled pedestrian crossing facilities in rural and lightly used urban areas may encounter increased difficulties in some situations where improvements to modern design standards have not been carried out.
4. What evidence do you have for your judgement? Is there evidence of public concern (e.g. complaints)? Have staff raised concerns? Is there local or national research to suggest that there could be a problem?
Individual concerns have been raised by members of the public in relation to particular schemes.
There are national standards based on research for the design of road crossings and other pedestrian facilities.
5. How and with whom have you consulted with as part of your assessment? What were the results? Have you published the results of that consultation? If so, where?
Where a suitable contact group exists they have been consulted as part of the design process for improvements to pedestrian facilities, for example the Salisbury Disability Access Group.
No results have been published.
6. If you have found that the function, policy or service might have an adverse impact on a particular group of people, can you justify this?
Measures to cater for disabled footway users are incorporated into new work and most road crossings in the busier locations have been retro-fitted with dropped kerbs and tactile paving.
The cost of extending these measures to all locations with any potential for use by the disabled would be prohibitive.
7. If the impact cannot be justified, what do you intend to do about this? Are there changes that you could introduce which would make the function, policy or service work better for this group of people? Is further research or consultation required?
No changes in policy are proposed.
8. How will you monitor the take-up or impact of the function, policy or service in future?
Monitoring will be through the number of ad hoc comments and complaints received.
9. What actions do you plan to take as a result of this EIA? Please include target dates for completion of actions and resource implications where possible.
No specific actions proposed.
10. If no actions have been identified in section 9 above, please state when a further review of this assessment is planned:
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11. Name of person completing form:
Group manager highway network improvements
Date assessment completed:
June 07
12. Name of senior manager approving assessment:
Assistant Director - Major Projects
Date assessment approved by senior manager:
18.06.07
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