Outcome 3
Safer streets, roads and communities
Reduce deaths, serious injuries and everyday transport risk.
Why this is an outcome
Road behaviour, school movements, pedestrian conditions, crossings and busy-corridor risk.
Physical Development Plan alignment
Mobility and accessibility; active travel; place-based planning.
National commitments
Commitment 8
Put road danger reduction at the centre of transport investment
Treat safety as an outcome of every scheme, not a separate programme.
Commitment 9
Make school journeys safer
Target the places and times where children are most exposed to risk.
Commitment 10
Improve pedestrian safety and accessibility on priority routes
Crossings, footways, lighting and accessible design on the busiest walking routes.
Candidate programmes
Proposed and to be validated — not yet Government commitments.
National Corridor Improvement Programme
Corridor-by-corridor improvement of the strategic road network.
Proposed / to be validatedBarbados Walking & Accessibility Programme
Connected footways, crossings and accessible infrastructure.
Proposed / to be validatedSchool Travel Programme
Safer, better-managed journeys to and from school.
Proposed / to be validatedNational Road Safety Programme
Systematic road danger reduction across the network.
Proposed / to be validated
Measures for this outcome
Baselines and targets are only published once data exists.
- Baseline being established
People killed or seriously injured
KSI casualties on the network.
- Baseline being established
Vulnerable road-user casualties
Pedestrian, cyclist and motorcyclist casualties.
- Baseline being established
Priority safety locations treated
Prioritised locations with a safety intervention delivered.