So ends 2011

As far as Chester Rd is concerned (it's where I live)

1. Increased traffic levels to trunk road levels on occasions.
2. Token traffic policing.
3. Our rat run still hammers through every work day morning
as it has when I pointed this out to Penyffordd Cllrs five years ago

Presuming this stays as it is up to local elections in May.

Last election on a voting of 2000 approx the three county council contenders
were I seem to remember within 10 votes of one another.

Presuming the main three groups put forward a contender

What if I stand as a county councillor ? How does that alter the numbers?

Happy 2012 councillors !


ps. It must be said that both Labour and the Independents have betrayed Chester Rd and other main roads within the village used instead of the bypass.

Perhaps someone else will stand, it would make things even more interesting.

Or perhaps its all off if we get the Higher Kinnerton speed bumps treatment?

I am being watched by

someone from Leeds area. Barry Davies ( Head of Legal FCC) must have asked someone from outside Flintshire County Council. As mentioned Penyffordd Community Council have complained I think about three times to Flintshire County Council over comments I have made about their conduct including lack of action on speeding in Chester Rd.

I have to remention that allowing 10 "Independents" candidates to stand on one election sheet is not good for local democracy. No having to do publishing your own election literature or delivering it or paying for it. It costs at least £80 to do the election literature and that price includes free desk top publishing. Last election local councillors stood who should have been long and gone years ago.

One councillor who shall remain nameless brought up what he considered a new suggestion that had been discussed at the previous three meeting. Perhaps he was on the wrong tablets that day ..........

keywords: Barry Davies Head Legal Officer

1000+ speeders every day through the village councillors.

Penyffordd Community Council Meeting November 2009

Tomorrow night Wednesday at 6.30 pm in the back room of The Institute. All are welcome to attend. Will speeding get discussed?

Still over a 1000 a day councillors.

The selecting of a new Chief Constable for North Wales

cc: ACPO, North Wales Police Authority Chairman, People for Proper Policing

Dear Evening Leader and Daily Post

A letter for consideration

I understand the North Wales Police Authority are currently looking for a new Assistant and Chief Constable. As far as Chester Rd, Penyffordd, Flintshire is concerned the previous holders Clive Wolfendale and Richard Brunstrom have been a dead loss.

The so called traffic taliban leader has been a toothless wonder, far too interested in media attention with no interest in accountability to communities. His inflated reputation far ahead of what he actually achieved.

Can we have a new Chief Constable who does what it says on the tin. Someone who will apply the laws laid down by Parliament. Someone who will apply ALL the laws instead of picking the easy laws like a pick 'n' mix at Woolworths. Someone who will leave the politics to the politicians.

Someone who will apply the Government's pledge to communities.

Someone who will be accountable to the communities they serve.

Yours sincerely

Colin Hughes

Penyffordd District

http://penyffordd-district.blogspot.com/

still over a 1000 vehicles speeding through Penyffordd everyday 2.5 years on..............................................

copied to blog

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Facts

NWP, FCC and ArriveAlive know that Chester Rd has a speeding issue and do little about it.

The figures have been as high as 2000 a day but are now nearer 1000 a day.

NWP website does not see an issue with over a 1000 speeders a day.
North Wales Police view of crime in Penyffordd

NWP refuse to back an HGV ban even though we have a bypass, thereby conspiring with FCC against Chester Rd community

Reporting a police inspector for taking no notice of speeding gets you an investigation by an inspector in the office next door.
Obviously it's natural for your complaint to go nowhere.

Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom did an audit of Penyffordd but "forgot" to look at speeding traffic.

Flintshire County Council and Arrive Alive have consistently avoided FOIE's that show all the speeding that is going on.

North Wales Police and Flintshire County Council have conspired to do very little regards speeding in Chester Rd Penyffordd.

North Wales Police refuse to enforce laws laid down with regards decibel levels of motorcycles and cars.

North Wales Police refuse to honour the pledge made by Government to communities

Link BBC NE

Best Village Competition

Judges will be visiting Penyffordd and Penymynydd today and tomorrow.

A 1000 speeders each day do not count in the proceedings...........................

Portsmouth goes 20 mph

Whilst I am not suggesting that all Penyffordd goes 20 mph something has got to be done over the lunacy of over 1000 vehicles speeding through Chester Rd Penyffordd everyday.

Link The Guardian

In The Evening Leader

discussing you know what. Still a 1000+ speeders in Chester Rd Penyffordd every day. My ever present thanks to The Evening Leader.

"Calls to lower speed limit on Flintshire road after 51 crashes in 6 years"

Speed campaigner Colin Hughes from Penyffordd has backed the calls, saying it was a "miracle" that no-one had been killed on the road.

He added: "51 accidents in six years is staggering. I can't see why the speed limit can't be changed. Alarm bells should have been ringing in the councils ears well before the total number of accidents reached that number.

"I am calling on Flintshire Council to do a wholesale audit of speed limits across the county before the situation gets even worse."

Link: The Evening Leader

keyword: Cllr Tony Sharps.

An Email to Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie with regards North Wales Police pledge to communities

Dear Chief Superintendent,

It is early morning in Chester Rd, Penyffordd, the birds are singing, we are in the height of summer. We are also into our daily rat run with vehicles hurling through the village, HGV's accelerating up the hill well before the speed limit taking a short cut and not using our bypass.

On the North Wales Police website it says " it’s very important for us to respond to the day-to-day frustrations of citizens wanting to make their locality a nicer place. "

As you are aware there are over 1000 speeding vehicles through Penyffordd each day. I have complained about this issue for over 2 years. North Wales Police's response to be kind is very lack lustre.

Under the Police Pledge I and residents in Chester Rd expect you to apply speeding traffic law and to act in the interests of Chester Rd by proposing an HGV ban to Flintshire County Council as we have a purpose made bypass.

I expect a timely reply to my and other Chester Rd residents concerns over our village environment under your Policing Pledge obligations.

Yours sincerely

Colin Hughes

Penymynydd Rd

Penyffordd

published to blog

Link North Wales Police Pledge

Speeding continues through Chester Rd Penyffordd

Our previous CBM Chris Pullen and Inspector Alun Oldfield were not interested in speeding through the village whatsoever. A half hearted effort that was quickly dropped. A couple of weeks hammering the speeders with the speed gun and articles in The Leader could have slowed a lot of them down.

I'm writing this as vehicles have been hammering through the village all day. It's less than it has been but still a considerable amount. I think well over a 1000 a day.

Our new CBM Howie Williams has been to the last Penyffordd Community Council meeting. One of the plus points was his suggestion that speed limits be pushed back up the hill. This was a very good suggestion. This however needs backing up with enforcement or an inability of vehicles to fly through the village with verticle platforms introduced.

This seems a long way off with Flintshire County Council's alleged moratorium on speed bumps which they use as an excuse except when they want to use them. They have been applied recently on a stretch of road in Deeside Industrial Estate where speed trials were taking place.

Speeding through Penyffordd however seems acceptable to Flintshire County Council. They have the exact data for traffic but refuse to release it as it is so bad. Nor will they act on it endangering lives and ruining our village environment.

CBM Howie Williams has said he will contact the Arrive Alive and a specialist division of North Wales Police that deal with speeding. I wait along with others in Chester Rd, Penyffordd.

We take pride in where we live, its a pity so few others do.


key words: Chief Superintendant Ruth Purdie, Hugh Jones Safety Officer, Cllr Arnold Woolley, Cllr Tony Sharps, Environment Director Carl Langland, Jim Morris All Wales Safety Partnership,

Road Accident Dobshill

Emergency crews were called at 5.10pm yesterday to the incident on the A550 at Dobshill near Queensferry. A North Wales Police spokeswoman said an articulated lorry and a car were involved in the incident.

Full story The Daily Post

Crime Figures down in Flintshire

according to Inspector Alun Oldfield. Criminal damage is the largest. The Inspector has no interest in a 1000+ speeding vehicles through Penyffordd, neither have Arrive Alive. Talking of criminal damage data I am still waiting for a crime reference number 2 weeks after my car was damaged.
I will persist. I do not trust NWP crime data. As far as I am aware it is collected and collated by the police themselves.

This year national serious crime data was found to be flawed when someone took an interest.

Meanwhile Inspector Oldfield will have had a very full day today. An elderly couple killed and 4 taken to hospital. Speeding vehicles the issue just like over 1000 plus that speed through our village everyday. Accident spot Mold Bypass, follow the link.

Link BBC NE

keyword: Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie

Carnage on North Wales Roads continues...

In The Leader

I have fired off a letter to the Leader with a CC to North Wales Police. I have had an email back from North Wales Police they are not best pleased. They rightly condemn me over insensitivity to the bikers family.
We have this issue where many bikers are being killed yet any criticism is not liked.

Motorcyclists will continue to die until they are fully controlled. If smoking can be stopped in public places speeding can be stopped on North Wales roads.

As I have said to North Wales Police on current form the next motorcyclist will die within a week.

I wrote a letter to The Leader as last weekend has seen Penyffordd By Pass being used as a 120 mph race track with illegal exhausts to boot.

Banning of HGV's through Penyffordd

Today I have rung up Garner Haulage to complain about one of their lorries speeding in Chester Rd. Here is a letter about a village who managed getting HGV's banned.

The Letter

Sir: The letter from Councillor Mollie Toy from Southwell (30 August) about sat-nav luring HGVs to her small town with inadequate roads struck a chord with residents of our tiny village of Milton Malsor in Northamptonshire.

We regularly get huge HGVs stuck in our narrow streets, damaging the cottages as they struggle to get out. We believe some of them are aiming for Lodge Farm Industrial Estate, five miles away, rather than our Lodge Farm.

Can anything be done, asks Councillor Toy? Well, we have been pressing the county council to impose a weight limit on the access roads to our village, although it has dithered for months, worried about the policing of such a limit. It needn't be. We will be out there with our cameras dealing with lawbreakers until the haulage companies know that they can't mess with Milton Malsor without getting fined.

A village with spirit!

Links

Letters: Revenge on sat-nav
Sat Nav Scourge
Sat Nav lorries damage roads

Sunday Race Afternoon on Chester Rd Penyffordd

Shoppers and holiday makers flying through by the minute.
2000 anti social behaviour acts each day plus the illegal exhaust systems
What happens to other villages? Do they just have to put up with it too.
North Wales Police and Arrive Alive continue to be unaccountable to North Wales residents.

The current withholding of full traffic data a criminal act in itself. They put these grand corporate statements on their website then completely ignore them.

keywords: Chief Superintendent Ruth Purdie, Chief Constable Richard Brunstron, unaccountable.

LINK: North Wales Police Intelligence

The above at the Liverpool Echo. The real power of blogs
They quote............
One would have expected controversial blogs by Chief Officers of North Wales Police to elicit more responses or posts than what gets published and that is exactly what happens. Many posts are not published on spurious grounds but the underlying reasons always seem to be a disagreement with the authors view. This is censorship, Chief Officers publish their view but they do not grant a right of reply. From now on I will copy and paste every blog published by Mr Brunstrom and Mr Wolfendale on this forum, which then allows everyone the right to respond....Please use the facility and enjoy.....

Link People for Proper Policing

North Wales Police, Arrive Alive and Statistics

Are North Wales Police statistics correct that they hand out to the press? Arrive Alive are very unkeen to give you their traffic speed data. Two FOIE's outstanding. They hide the true situation with averages and percentiles.

Here's Ben Oldacre in The Guardian on the murky world of statistics.

Click here.

or here The Slate

A Letter published in The Evening Leader

I thank thee.
My conversion rate somewhere near 1 in 20 for successful letters published.
It's The Evening Leader's bucket and spade, so they choose.
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This is nothing to do with letter published.
I made a comment regards North Wales Police use of a horse box on the Evening Leader website.
The comment was on the lines that us villages need a secret weapon against speeders
It's been pulled, there is a box you can click as unsuitable.
Perhaps a hairy biker pulled it lol

I only found out about it by looking who has looked at the website.
I followed a line backwards that led to a North Wales Police link an Inspector No3
Would that be Inspector Alun Oldfield?

Has Alun got some sort of editorial control at The Leader?
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Anyway here's my letter
It's not been added to the Leader Website as of yet.

Stephen Lee denies speed cameras save lives. It would be fair

to say that millions of motorists have altered their ways. As the points

add up only the stupid carry on speeding. Current motoring is akin to race track driving.

Push, push, get out of the way. There would be carnage if it were not

for speed cameras. There are over 700 communities in North Wales who

want the Arrive Alive vans more regularly. It is a fact that North Wales Police

would need £100's of millions off The WAG for Stephen's return to the streets for Police policy.

It's just not going to happen. I'm sure the 700 communities who require

Arrive Alive would be quite happy with permanent speed cameras

that operate in both directions.

Postscript. Not sure if the 100's millions will stand up to scrutiny. By the time you add officers, pensions etc the figures are very large.

Arrive Alive, FOIE's and the Obstruction of Democracy

I see in The Daily Post that 19 North Wales Police Police officers received speeding fines from Speed radar last year yet Arrive Alive who are a partnership with North Wales Police will not hand over anonymous data with regards the number of vehicles and their speed through Chester Rd, Penyffordd for May 2007.
I am standing as a community councillor for Penyffordd yet I am standing for a position with one hand tied behind my back because of Arrive Alive's current refusal to supply data which has a relevance to village safety on a very busy route to school that has approximately 2000 vehicles that speed through the village.

I am daily ridiculed in Penyffordd village over my claim of 2000 speeding vehicles.

Arrive Alive's refusal to hand over the required data is an active obstruction to the democratic process of Wales.

There are over 700 communities who want Arrive Alive assistance with maybe another 700 communities who have been refused assistance due to Arrive Alive's high bar qualification

keywords: Inspector Essi Ahari, Arrive Alive management, Inspector Alun Oldfield, happy smiley stories.

It would be a good call for you newspapers to ask Arrive Alive in FOIE's for the number of clients that Arrive Alive currently services plus the number of clients refused plus speed data. They currently use a statistical method to blind communities as to the actual speeding. Their speed average of 32 mph hiding 2000 speeders a day in Chester Rd , Penyffordd

I have asked for electronic speeding data collected by Arrive Alive for North Wales for 2004 and 2007 to gauge speeding in North Wales Communities. It has been rejected on amount of time to collect data. Also they claim a non standard databases.

Quite frankly to be charitable I find their excuse rather lame. With DVD technology I'm sure the data would fit on a DVD no bother.

Links
Arrive Alive Complaint
Arrive Alive Refusal

Ken Livingstone to push for 20 mph in residential London

Whilst up here " in the sticks" its 40 - 50 mph by the 100. As Ken says "Nine out of ten pedestrians will be killed if hit by a car travelling at 40 mph, but only one in forty will die if hit at 20 mph."
Chester Rd , a major route to school with no lolly pop and a daily rat run.

Link: Reuters

Nearly 2000 speeders a day, every day through Penyffordd a rural village with a bypass.

The Information Commissioners Office

When they will not hand out the information you want go here.
Click here.

The Freedom of Information Act

I currently have various FOIE's against public agencies.

Arrive Alive have refused to hand over harmless anonymous data that is of relevence to village safety. They site exemptions under sections S31 and S38.
We are in the second phase of my request. It takes 4 to 6 months. Its called kicking the ball into the long grass. As long as we have speeding in Chester Road I will continue to press. Arrive Alive's grounds for refusal are very weak.

I have about 8 FOIE's against Flintshire County Council. They are currently breaking the FOI Act on at least half of my requests because they are supposed to reply in 20 working days. As with Arrive Alive I have asked for electronic data for May 2007 when they measured traffic speeds for about 4 days.
I have also asked for various pieces of information with regards a meeting in May 2007 being misled by holding back of vital information with regards safety of Penyffordd village. Flintshire Highways also said they had no funding left for the year yet Cllr Tony Sharps appeared to get funding in the same year 10 months later.
Also I have asked for communications by Cllr Colin Bithell , Cllr David Williams and the late Derek Darlington who was County Councillor for the village and Leader of Flintshire County Council with regards Chester Rd and increased traffic due to various schemes.