Children have a right to safe and healthy streets

• Roads should be safe with no child deaths or serious injuries (termed "Vision Zero")
• Every child from age 5 should be able to walk safely to school
• Every child from age 8 should be able to cycle safely to school
• And people with disabilities should similarly be able to travel around their neighbourhoods safely.

We have a right to expect competent decision making from politicians, officials and the police in protecting children and other vulnerable people.

We have a right to expect decision makers to adhere to the seven Principles of Public Life of: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty, and leadership.

But instead, we have a corrupt system where decision-makers have been corrupted by power and/or self-interest - where decisions are based on ignorance, arrogance, bias, malpractice and unaccountability - leading to deaths, injuries, widespread fear of taking normal healthy exercise, and ill-health from inactivity.

It is a scandal, and it is time that decent people refused to tolerate it, and started a campaign of civil disobedience similar to that in the Netherlands (the Stop de Kindermoord campaign) of the 1970s.

The Climate Emergency and walking & cycling safety