The Living Streets initiative is a clear and urgent challenge to the authorities who, for decades, have allowed traffic priorities to overwhelm our local streets and public places, and failed to keep them clean and safe.



It is also a challenge to you - the person who wants to use your local streets freely and without fear, who wants to win back the public spaces from litter and vandalism and to reach local services with ease, not as someone whose family must always come second to cars and lorries.



The Living Streets initiative is a nationwide - ongoing - campaign to win back the streets for everybody.



Everybody is the key word here! Because even cyclists and motorists walk for

part of their journeys. We all have local streets and local community areas

that should belong to all of us, but somehow don't any more.



The Living Streets Manifesto is the battle plan to make the places we want

to walk and spend time in become something more than traffic corridors or

hang-outs for vandals or criminals. It can be done and the action starts

right here and now.



At last - a campaign to make your local streets worth living in - worth

strolling, meeting, shopping, sitting or relaxing in.



Living Streets is a major new campaign of The Pedestrians Association. This

is the one body that can speak for you with authority. The Pedestrians

Association (PA) have since 1929 been the driving force behind much road

safety regulation and many schemes such as the Walk to School campaign, Home Zones and pedestrianised areas.



We are not party political. We are not anti-car. Drivers are pedestrians

too. We stand for a better quality of life for all. We are a non-profit

organisation. Our only agenda is to make your local surroundings a happy

extension of your home life rather than a threat that surrounds and isolates

you.



Until now, the Pedestrians Association has mainly worked in partnership with

local and national government agencies to run awareness-building schemes and improve conditions for the vast, silent majority who deserve a safe and

enjoyable environment. The situation has now become too serious. The time

has come to win back our deteriorating streets. What we need now is action.



At last - a campaign to keep them clean, bright and safe for young and old,

in village, town and city. A campaign that is a wake-up call for the silent

majority of UK families.