Thingwall Road Traffic Calming

AGAINST

Here we have an argument 'AGAINST' the proposals. You can read this article and the 'FOR' article before casting your vote on our quick survey or leaving a message on our "Your Voice" Forum.

No one can question the need for considering all options for improving Road Safety on Thingwall Road and Thingwall Road East and while the proposed scheme will have it’s supporters it will have consequences for our community which may be less beneficial.

There are four roads, plus some that feed off them, that will have no alternative but to use our Main road if the scheme goes ahead but it is an accepted fact that drivers will often seek an alternative to daily treks over speed cushions if one exists. Residents in Roslin and Coombe Road and Glenwood Drive have the alternative of going the other way through Heathbank estate and joining Mill Hill Road to take the Upton route to Birkenhead and the motorways. This will cause congestion on an already busy and narrower Mill Hill and cause problems on the estate roads.

Bus Companies, and this is a main route, have been known to reduce or even withdraw services when driver’s complain of travelling over an intensive traffic calming scheme on a regular basis this proposal is certainly intensive.

A number of shops in Irby have closed and the village could decline further if residents from Thingwall Drive , Barker Rd , Whaley Lane , Oaklea Road and that area take the hump free route to do their local shopping in Pensby and Thingwall.

Emergency services could lose vital minutes getting to your home and if being taken to hospital the patient will get a rough perhaps life threatening journey also losing time along the way. If there is a traffic accident at the busy times because of the road narrowing features the road could easily become blocked in both directions and the emergency services would have extreme difficulty getting to the scene. Whatever scheme is put in place accidents will still happen.

People cross Thingwall Road at many points and the speed cushions and artificial narrowing of the road will cause severe hazards to the visually impaired, elderly and infirm who will concentrate on a break in the traffic and not see what is beneath their feet.

The Council’s stated aim of reducing carbon emissions will be damaged by a scheme that will actually increase carbon emissions. For more information follow these links

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/article3248132.ece

http://www.theaa.com/public_affairs/news/20mph-roads-emissions.html

If the Warrens were found to be the only realistic site for a new medical centre the Council might have spent £400,000 on this scheme only for the Primary Care Trust to complain it was damaging access for their patients.

Council Officers have spent time working on this scheme since before June 2007 and instead of the community being involved in the design it is presented with a finished scheme with only 3 weeks to raise objections. The scheme results from a Political Party inspired petition to Council of only 35 names. There has been no proper public consultation in Irby.

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