Road-building guidelines can now be viewed online

The Department for Transport and Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers (IHIE) have opened up their guidelines covering how roads can be built with motorcycles in mind, in a bid to improve safety.

The Guidelines for Motorcycling are now available online, and offer individual chapters advising on how bikes can be considered in road-building policy, design, maintenance, and parking.

They were drawn up using the views of a wide-range of experts, to provide highways engineers with practical advice on how to engineer roads to make them safer for motorcyclists and scooter riders.

Providing open access to the plans forms part of the Government’s Motorcycling Strategy, which was drawn up in 2005.

“The Government is fully committed to reducing motorcycle casualties,” road safety Minister Jim Fitzpatrick says, adding that the idea of putting the guidelines online was to open them up to the “widest possible audience.”