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Our work hasn't finished just yet.
Our work hasn't finished just yet.
Despite all our demands being met, we are still operating on 3 main objectives:
Despite all our demands being met, we are still operating on 3 main objectives:
1) Ensuring promises are delivered.
1) Ensuring promises are delivered.
This includes both the short-term response i.e. the renewed crossings (we had a meeting on the 20th May 2020 to discuss this and set a concrete plan on how and when this will be in place). As well as the long-term response, seeing the footbridge planning and ensuring it is built.
In the past, mistakes were made when planning a bridge like this, they had really terrible consequences, we will not let anything like this happen again.
2) Educating those most at risk.
2) Educating those most at risk.
We are working with local primary and secondary schools to deliver our program, Movement Schools. This is a engaging and informative program, to inform young children of the risks surrounding level crossings, educating them of the changes being made to the crossings, and teaching them how to approach and use the crossings in the safest ways possible.
We are working with North Somerset Council and Network Rail to deliver this.
3) A better plan, beyond.
3) A better plan, beyond.
It's clear to anyone that what happened, shouldn't have happened. There should have never been any room for error, yet there was.
Even after these two crossings close, there are still around 6,000 level crossings in Britain. Every day they are used by thousands of people to cross one of the busiest rail networks in the world.
We have gone on an extraordinary journey to get where we are today, but what if there wasn't a group like us someplace else, or a local council that was unwilling to cooperate and change these dangerous areas?
There must be a better plan, beyond Weston, with dealing with level crossing safety, particullarly after an incident has occured. We will be working on this for the long-term.
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