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Vehicles are routinely mounting the pavement on Villiers Road due to conflicting two-way traffic on a narrow carriageway, creating an ongoing pedestrian safety risk.
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 9031379.
Villiers Road, Buckingham – specifically the section running towards West Street / Dipalee Lounge – operates as a two-way street despite a restricted carriageway width that does not safely allow vehicles to pass in opposing directions.
As a result, vehicles are routinely forced onto the pavement to pass oncoming traffic. I monitored this location over multiple periods and observed that approximately 84% of vehicles mount the kerb in some way in order to proceed. This behaviour appears to be systemic rather than exceptional.
The frequency of pavement overrun increases notably during 08:00–08:30, 15:00–15:30, and 17:00–18:30. Two of these periods coincide with times when school-aged children are using the pavements, which significantly increases the level of risk.
This is a highway design and geometry issue involving pavement overrun and pedestrian safety. The current layout leaves drivers with no safe alternative when encountering oncoming vehicles.
A potential traffic management solution to remove vehicle conflict would be to consider a one-way arrangement, with Castle Street operating one-way from Market Hill towards Castle Street, and West Street operating one-way towards Market Square, subject to formal assessment through the Traffic Regulation Order process.
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The report has been passed to the Highway Officer, who will carry out an inspection of the issue within 10 working days, emergency defects will be corrected or made safe at the time of the inspection, if reasonably practicable to do so. In this context, making safe may constitute displaying warning notices, coning‐off or fencing‐off to protect the public from the defect or other suitable action. If the inspection team cannot make safe the defect at the time of inspection, then they will instigate the relevant emergency call procedures to ensure appropriate resources are mobilised to make the defect safe.
There may also be occasions when the issue reported will not be repaired as it has been classified as a minor defect and does not pose any risk to either the safety or the integrity of the highway, these are called minimum recording levels as specified in our Highways Safety Inspection Policy.
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We have reviewed the issue reported and have amended the category; this will ensure your report is directed to the most appropriate team at the council.
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Update
A Highways Technician has investigated the issue and has forwarded the details of this enquiry to the Road Safety Team.
Their emails address is RoadSafety@Buckinghamshire.gov.uk
Regards Buckinghamshire Council
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