A couple of years ago I was approached by two residents of Stopes Road who had concerns about speeding vehicles and asked if we could consider some form of traffic calming.
I suggested that they should organise a petition which they did and this was presented to the full Council when I also spoke on the matter.
I asked for a traffic monitor to be put on the road to gauge the speeds of vehicles.
Some of the speeds recorded shocked me.
I then contacted Greater Manchester Police who agreed to do some speed checks of their own.
On the first occasion they caught 91 speeding vehicles in two hours one of which was doing 68 mph.
Because the Council did not consider the road to be an Accident Blackspot, they were not prepared to do anything.
Luckily, they were shortly due to road alterations to parts of Market St and High St.
It was only white-lining and a couple of bollards, but, because they were in the area, to do some work on Stopes Road would be relatively inexpensive.
The Area Forum 'match -funded' the project
The work consisted of etching islands into the middle of the road and providing parking bays.
Most importantly we put in a 'Traffic Senser' . Apart from lighting up to show drivers they are going too fast it also records the speeds of vehicles so that information is available for the future in order to avoid having to do another monitoring exercise.
Our share of the costs totalled £5,000.
Sean
Any comments to electseanhornby@hotmail.co.uk
Promoted by Paul Richardson 24 Ripon Close Little Lever BL3 1EQ on behalf of Sean Hornby 35 Williams St Little Lever BL3 1LQ
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