On Monday afternoon I was called upon to sit on the Cambridge Traffic Management Area Joint Committee as a substitute for Cllr Burke who unfortunately wasn’t able to make the meeting. I used to sit on the AJC as a full member a while back and found it to be one of the more interesting committees as it combines both the City and the County.
The main issues on the agenda were around Parking Controls in the De Freville Area (by the Old Spring pub off Chesterton Road). The introduction of a scheme managed to bring out petitions both for and against but on balance the residents who would be the most affected by the scheme were fully in favour so I voted in favour and as did the majority of the AJC.
Next the AJC looked at the Ring Road and Radial Route Review: Milton Road. More information on this is available on the website (click here).
We then moved on to discussion of Car Club Parking Bays. This was universally welcomed by the AJC and the only part that disappointed me was that there aren’t going to be any of these Streetcat parking bays in King’s Hedges! I asked for details on how to propose a new parking bay (I’d like to see one either in the Arbury Court car park or outside the Manor School) – when I have the details I’ll pass them on.
There was a brief discussion on 20mph speed limited when I was able to confirm that the cost of signage and paining the signs on the street cost about the same – that was a surprise to me. It was also a surprise that the reported speed changes after the central 20mph zones had been introduced were in some cases up, some cases down, and in some cases minimal change! I do wonder if we could get more meaningful data by looking at the same week over two separate years to see what effect the zone has had, but that’s not very likely unfortunately.
Next we re-appointed the existing members to the Residents’ Parking Working Group and Appeals Panel (with the exception of a new Labour member).
Next we looked at the existing Environment Improvement Programmes – most of these were unfunded and there were two from King’s Hedges (20mph on Northfield Avenue, and Interactive Signage on Northfield Avenue) and I added in getting some double-yellow lines to once-and-for-all stop coach parking on Woodhead Drive. Hopefully as that is only £1,000 (I have already had a quote from the County) that can be done soon!
The decision document has been published online and is available here.
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