road calming

tinnca · #1 (**permalink**) 09-09-05, 15:52

Just an observation, why has Hapton village not yet got any traffic calming in place?it seems to have stopped at Padiham, oh sorry forgot we have a couple of slow signs on the road, not realy a physical way of slowing down speeding drivers !! there is a problem in Hapton at the corner of Whitefield St and Manchester Rd, just try to cross the road at 5pm .WE pay our community charge like everybody so please lets be treated equally :Confused:

Digsyboy · #2 (**permalink**) 09-09-05, 18:46

not sure hun,but just keep writing to the council expressing your concerns. I did in cleveleys, and to be fair they were very helpful and put a zebra crossing in place!
Worth a try

dellym · #3 (**permalink**) 09-09-05, 18:55

if enough people want traffic calming within the community then get together and nag nag nag the council. After a long time of asking the Ightenhill/Whittlefield area is going to become a 20mph zone with bumps etc throughout the WHOLE area. Im delighted though I expect drivers won't be lol!!
I got the plans through the door the other day along with a questionaire to be posted back. Finally someone listened.

murkdale · #4 (**permalink**) 09-09-05, 21:59

we dont want more traffic calming but less. im sick of bumps, and ramps and red stuff everywhere. it looks a mess, is expensive, and doesnt work (do boy racers care if they knacker their suspension?). Now speed cameras I dont mind. make the sods pay.

no offence, ill be campaiging for NO traffic calimg in hapton.

Brainstormer · #5 (**permalink**) 09-09-05, 23:02

I suggest 'traffic calming' might be the answer.

I know the Hapton road from Padiham thr'u to Hapton and I agree with the poster that measures need to be taken now to restrict speeding vehicles.

Because there's more traffic on the roads, there is more inclination for motorists to make up for waiting time by speeding. It's not on and the ONLY way to SLOW these motorist IDIOTS down is to place obsticles in their path.

Unfortunately the method of speed ramps also damages the undercariage of cars, but it DOES work, and it DOES slow down most vehicles.

Hapton is a lovely village and has for too long been a 'rat run' for vehicles wanting to short cut the motorway and speed into either accrington or Burnley.

The answer is this: put pen to paper and get signatures to back up the fact that people in Hapton are VERY concerned of the danger on that road. Contact the relevant Council and they will listen.

Do not take take NO as an answer. Plan your concerns well and draw a simple sketch showing where you would prefer the traffic calming to be implemented. A few hundred metres just before the bridge seems likely.

The Community charge is a tax based on how much the gullible british public are prepared to pay. The tax takes no account of 'equality' so forget that idea from day 1.

Avoid the tax like the PLAGUE and instead put YOUR foot down against the motorists and demand that something is done before lives are lost.

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"An apathetic public only feeds the goals of a dominant Government"

Digsyboy · #6 (**permalink**) 09-09-05, 23:16

speed bumps AND speed cameras I say!
The only people who don't like speed cameras are...........people who speed
FUNNY THAT!

grannyclaret · #7 (**permalink**) 10-09-05, 17:57

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Originally Posted by Digsyboy

not sure hun,but just keep writing to the council expressing your concerns. I did in cleveleys, and to be fair they were very helpful and put a zebra crossing in place!
Worth a try

after someone actualy got killed they decided yes it was dangerous,,
but STILL people cross 50yards from the crossing,,,,,:oops: to my shame i have done it myself when the road has been clear :banplease

Jason · #8 (**permalink**) 11-09-05, 06:38

Make sure you keep copies of any letters you send and the petition,as things do get lost.
Good Luck in your quest!

Digsyboy · #9 (**permalink**) 11-09-05, 08:41

good luck hun

tinnca · #10 (**permalink**) 11-09-05, 18:56

Thanx people for youre advice, I will go to the next local council meeting and put the points to them.
Regards
Tinnca

Col.Kurtz · #11 (**permalink**) 12-09-05, 20:22

Yeah, join the queue to have a pop at the motorist, after all they are the root of everything that is wrong in the world

I think there are places where traffic calming is necessary, it's just that they always seem to pick the wrong kind for the location, or go totally over the top and introduce an auto assault course that usually look damn ugly.

Mattylad · #12 (**permalink**) 13-09-05, 17:53

We have just received a consultation paper for traffic calming in the Ightenhill area.

Although I do agree that it may help with some traffic, we are not exactly in a rat run & do not get many speeding cars, however we do have kids playing in the streets.

But having a long wheel based vehicle I'm not too keen on havang any bumps that are hig & itwould be just typical of BCC to make them so.

Col.Kurtz · #13 (**permalink**) 15-09-05, 11:38

I got details of proposed 'speed cusions' on Coal Clough Lane yesterday. They don't seem over the top though, and they have put a pedestrian island in (the plans) opposite the corner shop which is a good idea. What it won't solve is the bottleneck of double parked cars opposite Coal Clough house. I don't know what the solution to that is, people need to be able to park outside their own house.

#14 (**permalink**) 15-09-05, 20:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mattylad

We have just received a consultation paper for traffic calming in the Ightenhill area.

Although I do agree that it may help with some traffic, we are not exactly in a rat run & do not get many speeding cars, however we do have kids playing in the streets.

But having a long wheel based vehicle I'm not too keen on havang any bumps that are hig & itwould be just typical of BCC to make them so.

What's it got to do with Burnley Cricket Club?

dellym · #15 (**permalink**) 23-09-05, 17:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mattylad

We have just received a consultation paper for traffic calming in the Ightenhill area.

Although I do agree that it may help with some traffic, we are not exactly in a rat run & do not get many speeding cars, however we do have kids playing in the streets.

But having a long wheel based vehicle I'm not too keen on havang any bumps that are hig & itwould be just typical of BCC to make them so.

To be fair matty, your house is on a "safe" road. Most of the avenues around here are used by lots of cars and at dangerous speeds. If drivers can't stick to the rules they learned when they passed their tests (speeding in built up areas etc) then this is the measure that needs to be taken.
What beggars belief sometimes though is that alot of the speeders are parents on the school runs!!!