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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Arrive Alive and Statistics

I have asked my mate Dave to pass an email to the Freedom of Information people at Flintshire. I email Dave as they don't have an email address. Lets make things awkward it will cut down the number of requests? I have requested traffic data for Chester Road that Flintshire Highways carried out over a 4 or 5 day period before the meeting with Flintshire Highways.

PC Chris Pullen at the Neighbourhood forum repeated the red herring that our average speed through the Chester Road, Penyffordd is 32 mph.
This was the original figure quoted after Hugh Jones put his magic box on the lampost which measures speed, time for all vehicles passing that point. The magic box supercedes the two strips across the road and a box.
Our data is here if you scroll down. Its now 39mph after I protested to Arrive Alive that the 32mph average was plainly wrong. 100's of cars in 2nd gear coming out of Penymynydd Rd were disguising what was actually happening outside my house

I think this average system is adopted to keep the qualification bar high. This means there are communities all over North Wales that have requested help from Arrive Alive but fail to qualify because drivers who obey the law water down the number of speeders.

If you look at the daily rat run in Chester Rd Penyffordd and then bear in mind that Arrive Alive quoted an original figure an original figure of 32 mph you would think the qualifying system was inaccurate

Lets have a fair reporting system where communities are given the number of speeders and their speed not this fudging average after all its the speeders that matter so lets not water things down with law abiding motorists.

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