Flintshire County Council plans traffic calming for Chester Rd Penyfforrdd

To Charles Hughes, Head of Engineering FCC.

cc. Jane Davidson AM. Minister for Sustainability and Rural Development

Dear Charles
At the moment your department are preparing plans for traffic calming in Chester Rd, Penyffordd. Arrive Alive have the "before" data. I think Hugh Jones has about 5 days of traffic data. Number of vehicles, direction of vehicle, time of vehicle passing through Chester Rd and speed of each vehicle.

After you have put your plans in place it would be interesting to have another 5 day survey so we can compare the effect of the traffic calming. An honest account for public scrutiny would be fine. The number of speeders and their speed before against the same after. We can forget those that do the speed limit and under that Arrive Alive use to water down their data. Click here.

2000 speeding motorists through Chester Rd, Penyffordd each day. 1,040,000 a year. Noisy vehicles accelerating and de accelerating many with modified exhausts, 100's of HGV's.A high percentage breaking the speed limit. Noise bouncing off building surfaces, amplifying the noise polution.

BEFORE WARREN HALL.

Oh! Forgot to mention we have a By-pass.

Not what the EU and The Welsh Assembly would call a rural village environment.

Chester Rd, a school route, horse route, OAP crossing, a rural village road.

regards Colin
for myself and other ChesterRd residents

ps. My solution, a 20mph compulsory zone outside the Post Office, enforced by Arrive Alive and North Wales Police plus verticle platforms, HGV's kept out of village, a low noise surface outside the Post Office.