Unofficial - A Personal View
February
Penyffordd
As a resident of Penyffordd I wish to know your views on the continued rat race through our village.
What you’re views are on having a traffic calming policy for the village.
Colin
" Stop experimenting with People's Lives"
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Hi Colin
There are a number of options including traffic calming; changes to the street that encourage drivers to slow down; speed cameras. Take a look at the New Life for Main Roads web site: www.newlifeformainroads.org.uk under Good Practice.
You can also find a briefing on how to campaign for a 30mph zone in villages which has some relevant information – go to the Transport 2000 web site at www.transport2000.org.uk Select Change your streets – then select Campaign guides and briefings.
Government guidance recommends that schools, wherever possible, have a 20mph zone on surrounding streets - this should add to your argument for a 20mph speed limit.
Ways of slowing traffic without traffic calming include:
2. Informal crossing places (as opposed to zebras and pelican crossings) marked out with traditional materials (and since they are informal they don’t need lots of zigzag white line) show that the street is shared with pedestrians.
3. If the street has centre white lines, removing these can slow drivers down – increasing uncertainty for drivers encourages them to take their foot off the accelerator.
4. Encouraging people to get out and use the street as social space also affects drivers. David Engwitch (in his book Mental Speed Bumps) claims that the effect of a street festival on passing traffic lasts a lot longer than the street festival itself.
You may also want to take a look at the following web sites for ideas:
http://www.english-heritage
http://www.english-heritage
http://www.hamilton-baillie.co
http://www.homezones.org.uk
Would you like a 20’s Plenty campaign pack? If yes, please email me your address.
Let me know if you need any further help
All the best
Linda Beard
Streets and Traffic Campaigner
Transport 2000
A road hump/gateway scheme is considered suitable and this
could be implemented in two stages. However, if the two
stages are carried out simultaneously, it does appear that
the site could be a suitable candidate for the introduction
of a 20 mph speed limit zone (see paragraph 3.3 of the
report). This would further benefit the scheme as signing
and road marking requirements are considerably reduced, thus
lessening the visual impact on the street scene and the
overall cost of the scheme. Authorisation for an experimental
20 mph zone would be required from the Department of
Transport.
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High Street, Buriton - Same Problem Penyffordd
B.1 The Parish Council are concerned at the volume and speed of
traffic passing through the village with regard to pedestrian
safety , particularly at the village infant school. Traffic
levels through the village are very low, except on weekday
mornings between approximately 0800 and 0900 hours when
levels increase due to traffic queues on the A3 south of
Petersfield. The High Street then becomes part of a
'rat-run' route involving the C200 and B2146 and enables
traffic to access Petersfield from the east. The problem,
however, will be resolved with the completion of the
Petersfield Bypass, expected in 1995.
B.2 An 'S' type chicane scheme is proposed, situated immediately
to the west of the school entrance at the point where lower
vehicle speed is desirable.
B.3 The estimated cost of the scheme is £5,000 and would provide
a good example of traffic calming where there is a
'rat-running' problem in a rural village.
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Pedestrians and cyclists will be given priority in the village, with traffic nuisance kept
to a minimum.
Traffic entering the settlement will be dispersed along three main routes which will be
subject to traffic calming to produce design speeds of 25mph.
Cars will not be excluded from the village centre. They form part of the activity which
will bring life to its heart, and informal parking will be permitted in the street and
square. However, the linear form of the village centre will ensure that all essential
facilities should be within walking distance of most residents, thus reducing the number
of car journeys.
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Thanks Gordon.
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Global cooling could develop on Earth in 50 years and have serious consequences before it is replaced by a period of warming in the early 22nd century, a Russian Academy of Sciences’ astronomical observatory’s report says, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Friday.
Environmentalists and scientists warn not about the dangers of global warming provoked by man’s detrimental effect on the planet’s climate, but global cooling. Though never widely supported, it is a theory postulating an overwhelming cooling of the Earth which could involve glaciation.
“On the basis of our [solar emission] research, we developed a scenario of a global cooling of the Earth’s climate by the middle of this century and the beginning of a regular 200-year-long cycle of the climate’s global warming at the start of the 22nd century,” said the head of the space research sector.
Khabibullo Abdusamatov said he and his colleagues had concluded that a period of global cooling similar to one seen in the late 17th century — when canals froze in the Netherlands and people had to leave their dwellings in Greenland — could start in 2012-2015 and reach its peak in 2055-2060.
He said he believed the future climate change would have very serious consequences and that authorities should start preparing for them today because “climate cooling is connected with changing temperatures, especially for northern countries.”
“The Kyoto initiatives to save the planet from the greenhouse effect should be put off until better times,” he said, referring to an international treaty on climate change targeting greenhouse gas emissions.
“The global temperature maximum has been reached on Earth, and Earth’s global temperature will decline to a climatic minimum even without the Kyoto protocol,” Abdusamatov said.
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