Speeding Traffic

Reported by David Curtis at 09:11, Wed 1 August 2007
Sent to Derbyshire County Council and Amber Valley Borough Council 4 minutes later

There has been much discussion but no action about the speeding traffic through the village - it affects all including endangering children from the local school who have to walk through the village from the school to the village hall for PE and assemblies etc (there is no reduced speed limit in the village even to accommodate the school). At night we are plagued by boy racers. There are critcially no speed inhibitors; the Shiply Park road has been resurfaced so encouraging travel at speed, and some misguided sole last year increased the speed limit to West Hallam from 30 mph to 40 mph. This has no doubt encouraged the increase in through traffic which accelerates dangerously and noisily out of the village from the crossroads and decelerates while still at speed as it approaches the village crossroads. As I have said there has been much huffing and puffing by Parish Council, local authority and police but the situation is deteriorating and those responsible for the inactivity are in my judgement in danger of collective negligence

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Posted by David Curtis at 11:09, Wed 29 August 2007

I have received a response from Derbyshire County Council which defends the decison to increase the speed limit originally on the grounds that it emphasises the need to slow down on entering the village. It claims that the measures taken have resulted in more effective traffic management, which is frankly not evident. I am promised however that the council will now monitor traffic flows in this area for if any extra traffic management measures need to be introduced.

Posted by David Curtis at 20:01, Tue 9 October 2007

The CC has now closed the through road in Shipley Park. This has had some effect but we still encounter the boy racers, problems with visiting traffic (to the park and the village), and the excesses of local traffic.

Posted by David Curtis at 18:17, Wed 7 November 2007

But some progress has been made with the closure of the road through the park. Still no action has been taken re speed bumps or anything in relation to the speed limits operating when children in the school are on the move in the village.

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