An Email to Mark Tami MP about Traffic Calming

Dear Mark

It was good to meet you in person at your surgery in the Penyffordd Institute.

There was a Penyffordd Community Meeting last Wednesday where I was expecting a progress report about how far Flintshire Highways have got and what they are going to give us with regards to Traffic Calming for Chester Rd, Penyffordd. Nothing specific was confirmed or when.

My councilors are currently myopic with Castle Cement. As I have said elsewhere speeding cars kill you a lot quicker than the alleged pollution of Castle Cement. We have 2000 speeding cars a day past my house which is in the middle of the village. We are also on the Route to School.

Will you contact Flintshire Highways and find out what is happening and when?

Also according to Arrive Alive's website we should have their signs at the boundaries of our village to warn drivers that we are on the Arrive Alive list of places visited. These signs are a slight deterent in themselves. Click here.
Their temporary signs are of little use as they guarantee Arrive Alive presence. The proper road signs are a deterence.

Also the Arrive Alive van is so rare a sighting that I think it has become extinct.

A couple of sessions in quick sequence at Terrace Lane would be highly effective as they cannot start to accelerate until they see that the van is not there. The entrance to Mr Knight's field has limestone chippings underneath. Mr Knight is currently being detained at her Majesty's pleasure.

Will you contact Arrive Alive for myself and Chester Rd?

Also the large blue sign saying Police Speed Check Area (Click here) at the entrance to Chester Rd 30 mph zone would be very effective.


regards Colin