Ms Giulia Vallone:

DMURS are excellent tools. However, as I said in my statement, they have to be in the hands of a good designer and with a multidisciplinary team. I have seen in many contexts somebody say something is with DMURS but the challenges behind everything in DMURS are almost transparent to public perception. For example, the easiest and cheapest way to transform a town is planting trees but the challenges behind doing that are enormous. Often, things like that are delivered through planters, for example, and this changes the full context and philosophy of DMURS. There are many challenges that cannot be addressed unless there is a competent designer leading it.

The quality audit of DMURS, which was an addendum, made it more explicit in 2019. It is not applied. Unfortunately, only a few schemes I have worked on with TII have implemented it. That, as Mr. Hogan says, is a more holistic approach than the road safety audit, which is traditionally taken as the most important audit. This is not acceptable and makes the DMURS not as valid as it should be.