On Saturday April 20th from 11am to 12 noon there will be two simultaneous Safe Streets Now actions in Sheffield at Walkley and Park Hill.

Walkley will gather at the junction of Walkley Road and Walkley Lane. The focus will be on unsafe roads in Walkley including Walkley Road and crossing Walkley Lane for children getting to school. 

Park Hill will focus on the Duke Street/Bernard Street/Talbot Street Traffic Lights which have no pedestrian lights. Locals have been campaigning for lights here for over 20 years.

Please bring a home made placard or banner.

South Yorkshire has by far the most dangerous streets in the country and we should expect the Councils and the South Yorkshire Combined Mayoral Authority to be doing far more to combat this.

Here is the video from last year so you know what to expect.

Our Vision

• We campaign to minimise road danger through improved driver and vehicle regulation in conjunction with people-centred design of our public spaces.
• We demand that within the next parliament, the government:
  • Makes 20mph the default speed limit in built up areas
  • Implements a nationwide ban on pavement parking
  • Allocates 10% of highway spending to high quality infrastructure for walking, wheeling and cycling.
• We demand that the sentencing council
  • Reviews its recommendations on driving bans for driving offences such that
    • Lifetime bans are the automatic dispensation for the worst offences
    • Longer bans are mandatory for less serious offences or near misses
• We demand that the CPS / police services
  • Impose interim driving bans as bail conditions for people arrested for or charged with causing death or serious injury by dangerous, intoxicated or careless driving.
• We demand that every local authority
  • Establishes ‘school streets’ outside every viable primary school by 2030
  • Focus their Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIP) and delivery on safe pedestrian and cycle routes to all primary and secondary schools
  • Use existing road pricing powers (with exceptions for disabled people, low income workers etc) to reduce excess driving and raise money for local street improvements