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To confirm that the business of the meeting will take place in public.
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Hillside Road, Northwood - Petition Requesting Traffic Calming Measures PDF 619 KB
Minutes:
This item was
rescheduled from the Petition Hearing meeting with the Cabinet
Member for Planning, Transportation and Recycling held on 22 May
2013, due to the unavailability of a British Sign Language
Interpreter.
Concerns, comments and
suggestions raised at the meeting included the following:
- Speeding cars could
be seen from the petitioners’ home in Hillside Road, as they
approached the junction at the start of Hillside Road, via Pinner
Road, through Potter Street.
- Cars had been
witnessed speeding down the hill at 55mph and often drivers had
been forced to slam on their breaks, as they came off the sharp
curve in the road (blind spot), only then realising that there were
cars parked on the road.
- From the other side
of the road, residents experienced real difficulty in trying to
cross the road and were very anxious about their safety when
waiting at the bus stop.
- White stones had been
placed on the verge area by residents to highlight and indicate the
existence of the verge.
- Concerned that as
motorists drove up the hill, they would be unaware of the blind
spot and the loss of visibility of vehicles approaching from the
other side of the hill.
- Suggested
installation of the ‘raised tables’ device which
control traffic, similar to those recently installed in Cuckoo
Hill, Pinner. Compared to the number of houses in Cuckoo Hill,
there were far more houses in Hillside Road, which had bungalows
along both sides of the road with many of the residents were
elderly people.
- Suggested also for
consideration; a 30mph moving vehicle activated sign and issuing
fines to drivers who exceeded the limit.
- Concerned that many
residents had given up on finding an acceptable solution to the
problem, as this had been an on-going issue for a long time.
- Urged the Cabinet
Member for a satisfactory solution to be found to make the Hillside
Road safe.
A Ward Councillor
spoke and raised the following points:
- Thanked the Cabinet
Member and officers for holding the petition hearing in Northwood
Hills.
- Advised that the
issue of finding effective traffic calming measures on Hillside
Road had been a problem for many years, but acknowledged that the
Council took road safety issues very seriously.
- Suggested that other
solutions had been tried in the past, such as installing 30mph road
signs on the road, which was approached from the boarder of Harrow
through to Pinner Hill, dipping sharply, before coming up again and
veering off to the right at the same time and bending round into a
valley.
- Vehicles tended to
speed, as they went down the hill and came into difficulty, as they
approached a sharp bend as they drove up the hill.
- Access to St
John’s school added to the traffic congestion during term
time, as the main entrance to the school was via Hillside Road.
Numerous petitions had been raised to address the issue of
congestion and road safety in the area.
- The problem of
congestion was further compounded with ...
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