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<p>There are four traffic marshals stationed on the road between Black Rod’s Garden
and New Palace Yard (also called the ‘spine road’); there is one marshal in Royal
Court, two along the road itself, and one in Speaker’s Court.</p><p>Other marshals
are located elsewhere -one at Carriage Gates, one outside Westminster Hall, one on
the Corus Lane/Peers’ Car Park and one in Black Rod’s Garden. There is also one marshal
supervisor and two relief marshals to provide shift and break cover. This makes 11
marshals. The total cost for all marshals per week is £12,588.</p><p>Marshals will
be in place while construction work is underway as part of the New Palace Yard Security
Project. The intention is to reduce the number of marshals on the spine road, and
elsewhere in the Palace, once users become more confident with the new arrangement.
Strategic Estates are tracking and reviewing the system daily. Any remaining marshals
may be deployed where our current monitoring of the one-way system identifies the
most need.</p><p>The need for traffic marshals is not a consequence of vehicle or
pedestrian causalities but is based on risk assessments, traffic modelling carried
out prior to the operation of the one-way system, stakeholder requests, and construction
industry best practice. On construction sites pedestrians and traffic are almost always
segregated, but where this is not possible, such as on the Parliamentary Estate, additional
mitigations are required.</p>
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