The Highway Code has rules and advice for staying safe as a pedestrian. Parents should also teach their children the Green Cross Code.

We receive many requests each year for new pedestrian road crossings. To best use our financial resources, each site is surveyed and the results compared with national criteria to identify the most needy locations.

The main factors measured are the number of people crossing and the amount of traffic. Other factors include the number of injures on the road near the site and local features such as hospitals, schools and shops. A list is then drawn up in order of priority with the worst site for pedestrians at the top of the list.