congestion from more lights, bus routes etc. are leading to less driver and pedestrian/cyclist attention ? You can see some of what you want in a blog I wrote last year: It's here The first table and graph include some figures for pedestrian casualties and ages in the years 2009-2011. However, I don't think the numbers will help very much, one way or the other. We just need to show a willingness to accept that there are no motives in the proposal other than a strong wish to take another small step towards improving the lives we still have. It's worth going quite a long way to avoid even a single death. This is my first year in Bristol and it's a truly great city. The roads seem as bad as anywhere else, but I'm sure that the motorists are generally more polite and considerate than those in other places I have lived. Even when they have a chance to get up to 30 mph I see very few going recklessly higher than that. 30mph seems a perfectly sensible speed limit. Have we not had enough 'health and safety'? How can Bristol and Britain thrive with more and more of these restrictions? Our fears and anxieties about life are being amplified and exploited. Who, I wonder, came up with these radical and foolish proposals? Could more worthwhile employment be found for them? Could they perhaps attend a course on 'Common Sense and How to Attain It?' Perhaps cheaper than spending