https://theconversation.com/do-we-really-need-to-walk-10-000-steps-a-day-153765

https://theconversation.com/walking-workouts-are-great-for-heart-bone-and-muscle-health-and-almost-everyone-can-do-it-158187

Agree with this – I regularly push a buggy along here and struggle if I meet anyone. Can be a struggle to cross safely without a detour as well

[Name deleted] good to see you championing common sense!! I miss Gosforth! Ciara.

Thanks Paul. Lots of good ideas there.

– Remove advertising boards from any bollards alongside footways
– Remove bollards from GHS after the implementation of 20mph zone
– Get utility companies to improve their pavement repair standards or fine them/or charge them a bigger initial fee
– Mark areas of non-designated shared surface with some sort of ground line marking, possibly alongside the kerb, so both pedestrians and cyclists know. This would also mean that where the line doesn’t exist there shouldn’t be any cyclists
– ticket vehicles fully parked on pavements regardless of the passing space left
– Increase the timespan of all pedestrian crossings so everyone can get across safely
– In order to create and maintain healthy streets, ensure that street trees in private developments are cared for and exist after the defects/maintenance period, which should also be extended to 10 years
– In order to create and maintain healthy streets, map all street trees across Newcastle and ensure all trees are replaced within the street scene once the original trees are cut down
– Ensure that all pedestrian crossings at junctions have either dropped kerbs or raised platforms
– If it’s a good and sensible idea to restrict parking at road junctions around schools (eg Hall’s Estate) to make pedestrian crossing safer for children and their careers, why can’t the same thing be done in all residential estates (where they live)

Finally it is good to see a local group promoting and pushing issues with regards walking. Walking doesn’t tend to attract a specific budget yet 99% of us all use the footpath/way. what a shame the city council appear to do virtually nothing to promote either the ‘Walking Month’ or the ‘Walk to School’ week.

I would like to say that I am OPPOSED to these crossings being moved further away from the junction. This is because walkers will still want to cross near the roundabout as it’s the most direct route and this would end up being MORE dangerous as the traffic will not be expecting it and will be going faster at that point.