The whole team here fear someone will be killed in the King’s Hedges area unless the county council changes its priorities to include the safety of city residents.
The Conservative run Cambridgeshire County Council has refused our ideas for cutting drivers’ speed on King’s Hedges Road. Speeding drivers are also putting lives at risk in the Northfield Avenue area.
Yet again, there's been two crashes on King's Hedges Road, supports our fight for traffic calming measures.
Councillor Mike Pitt said: “All the ideas I have put forward to try to cut speed and save lives on this road have been turned down by the county council.
“It is only a matter of time before someone dies on this dangerous stretch of road and yet the county council seems oblivious to that fact. Its priorities have been set up to exclude Cambridge city residents and their concerns for safety.”
Mike has suggested better signage, temporary or fixed speed cameras, painting the 30mph limit on the road and even moving the 30mph sign at the Histon Road end to make it more visible, and all of these have been turned down.
Campaigner, Andy Pellew has also been fighting for traffic calming measures in the area. He wants to see action taken in Northfield Avenue especially on the stretch between King’s Hedges Primary School, The Red Hen House and The Ship.
He said: “There have been accidents on this road and traffic regularly speeds along this stretch. I believe it is only a matter of time before there is another serious accident.
“The county council must start listening to the people of Cambridge and realise that speeding traffic in this area is a real threat.”
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During the North Area Committee on the 2nd of July I asked about speed monitoring the police had been doing on Water Street / Fen Road in Chesterton.
This prompted the police to present their findings from monitoring traffic speeds in that area.
Following that discussion the Kings Hedges Councillors asked if similar surveys to be carried out on Northfields Avenue and Kings Hedges Road. The police agreed to do this.
Hopefully the results can be used to prompt action such as changes to the road environment or better enforcement of the speed limits (The survey ought tell the police what times of the day the problem is worse).
Both in Chesterton and on Queen Ediths Way public perceptions have differed from the data collected by the speed monitoring devices so they provide a useful additional perspective.
I have written about the discussion on speeding which was held at the North Area Committee on my own website; my article can be accessed via this link.
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