As part of our campaign to slow down traffic on Upper Tollington Park, my colleague Cllr Katherine Reece has joined a local police patrol in the area. After being alerted to the problem by councillors and local residents, the neighbourhood police team have been taking action to catch people speeding near the pedestrian crossing at the junction with Florence Road.
In this patrol a few weeks ago, four cars were stopped for speeding, a penalty notice was issued for failing to stop at a crossing, and a ticket was given out for using a mobile phone whilst driving. The action is necessary because so many residents have raised concerns about cars driving too fast and failing to stop at the busy crossing, which is a route to a local primary school.
Another partial success from the campaign has been getting electronic speed signs installed, which flash a warning when vehicles break the speed limit. However, the locations they have been installed don’t seem ideal – as one of them is after the crossing and partially obscured by vegetation. I’ve contacted the Council asking them to re-assess whether the signs are in the optimum positions!
However, our real aim is to get traffic lights at the crossing – and we are collecting signatures for a petition to make the Council take action. Please sign up.
October 11th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Speed cameras are often in the wrong locations. Speed signs are a good idea, but thay also need to be correctly positioned.
November 18th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
I heard that there was an incident on Upper Tollington Park this morning, with lots of police. My first thought was that it must have been a traffic accident at the pedestrian crossing.