CPRE's response welcomes the continued commitment to increase road safety but highlights the need to tackle the intimidation by traffic of walkers and cyclists, while showing that increasing road safety can help tackle issues like climate change and obesity.

Following CPRE's successful campaigning, local authorities are able to designate country lanes as 'Quiet Lanes' in rural areas, under the Transport Act 2000. This accessible and informative guide will explain what Quiet Lanes are, their benefits and, step-by-step, how to promote them in your area.

This document has been submitted as written evidence to the House of Commons Transport Committee and is now the Committee's property.

Joint guidelines to suggest how rural communities and highway authorities can curb the growth in unnecessary road signs in the countryside, produced by CPRE jointly with the motoring charity the RAC Foundation.

Country lanes are an intricate part of the English countryside. Yet heavy lorries are damaging them and the villages they pass through. This checklist explains how you can help tackle the problems of heavy lorries in your area. It describes how to undertake a lorry count, and use the findings to persuade your local highway authority to take action.

CPRE believes that plans to increase compliance with road safety laws need to be rural proofed.  Driver retraining needs to include giving more consideration to vulnerable road users, such as on country lanes, while graduated fixed penalties for speeding will have limited impact in rural areas unless the default 60mph limit is reduced.

The Campaign to Protect Rural England believes the changes to the use of 20mph in urban areas as a significant step in the right direction but remains concerned that no change is proposed for rural speed limits, particularly on country lanes. We welcome the recognition of the wider impact of speed limits but believe that updated guidance should to follow the new circular to prevent confusion and encourage lighter touch traffic calming.

CPRE's evidence recommends ending the expansion of the trunk road network which creates more traffic in country and town, seriously damages quality of life and increases carbon emissions, without improving real accessibility for rural areas. This document shows why any new transport schemes must improve accessibility rather than give hypothetical time savings, and why transport policy must give urgent priority to the promotion of car sharing and the reduction of car dependency.

Tranquillity mapping has highlighted that road noise is one of the biggest causes of lost tranquillity in the countryside. Produced by a consultancy on behalf of the Noise Association, this report gives a human perspective to this quantitative mapping and includes case studies involving CPRE branches.