Hi Alma
Have you had any feedback / info on the impact on air pollutant levels measured
at the top of Rossington Road during the first lockdown, when 'through traffic'
(rat running) was massively reduced?
Cheers
JAnet
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Sent: 16 November 2020 20:34
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Subject: [eccotalk] Re: Low Traffic Neighbourhood Schemes
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<http://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<mailto: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
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