Hello everyone,
we would be in favour of ECCO approaching the council for this,
people sometimes do just drive up and down the side streets between Everton
Rd and Brocco bank at crazy speeds!
Something that may help in talking to the council, is talking about
'multiple benefits', e.g. Sheffield also has a flooding problem and the
Council is working hard on improving flood protection and has some funding
for this, see,
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/home/public-health/flood-protection-schemes.
There are several plans/ideas for the Sheaf catchment for 2028, catchment
wide increasing of flood resilience is mentioned. This can comprise many
things, but one small part thereof is sustainable drainage systems, SuDS
(and many such small schemes do make a difference)
So for interest you can see many examples of SuDS on susdrain.org, and
these can also be made into with traffic calming measures, see for example
a nice one here
https://www.susdrain.org/case-studies/case_studies/embleton_road_suds_bristol_light_case_study.html
(if you download the pdf, you can see what these things look like, and how
the involved the local school as well)
Something like this would calm traffic as well as reduce floodrisk,
using a smaller part of funding from either pot, with double benefit :)
Thanks, Alma
On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 17:25, JOHNATHAN BUTLIN <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello Everyone
There have recently been some articles in the papers about about Low
Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) as the Government has released £175 million
of new funding for LTNs.
We would ask you to consider that we in the Ecco area apply to the council
for us to become an LTN in order to stop our area being used as a rat run
for people in cars to get from Endcliffe Vale Road down to Hunter's Bar
more quickly, and back in the other direction. Cars often drive very
quickly, and when they meet a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction,
they drive on the pavements and grass verges to get past rather than
waiting or backing up. This is obviously dangerous to pedestrians. Driver
frustration can also lead to displays of anger. I personally witnessed a
car hooting loudly when I tried to cross the road from my house, and then
the driver jumped out of the car to threaten me, despite having his wife
and children in the car.
There would be a number of clear benefits to our becoming an LTN:
- A reduction in the volume of traffic travelling through all roads in
our area
- a reduction of incidents where drivers use pavements and grass
verges to pass other vehicles
- a reduction of incidents where impatient drivers display anger and
road rage
- a reduction in air pollution in our area caused by exhaust fumes
- Increased safety for children and other pedestrians
The simplest way to cut down on the amount of traffic on our roads if we
were to become an LTN, would be to block off Endcliffe Glen Road, either at
the top, or at the bottom at the junction with Everton Road. This would
mean that traffic could no longer use our roads as a rat run. We are aware
that some of you are concerned that this would mean that residents in our
area would have to drive round via Brocco Bank and Endcliffe Vale Road,
thus adding a minute or two onto the travel time in a car. However,
research in areas that have already become LTNs, for example in London, has
found that those who opposed the changes to their areas have changed their
views once they have seen the overall benefits as listed above
We would be grateful if you could consider this proposal; you may have
other suggestions about how we could implement a scheme for us to become an
LTN. If enough of us are in favour then we could approach the Council to
take this opportunity of improving the environment that we live in and
hopefully improving people's health.
Many thanks
Fred Butlin and Sue Peace
24 Endcliffe Glen Road
