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Having argued against even having a public meeting to discuss their controversial plan to impose a 20 mph speed limit on roads in west York (and later the rest of the City), the Labour Council have now issued a media release which says
“To view proposals of how 20mph might best be implemented in the West of York as well as Bishopthorpe, Copmanthorpe and Bishophill, please visit http://www.york20mph.org/
In addition to this, plans will also be available at York Explore Library Learning Centre, local libraries in the West of York, and Energise sports centre.
Council staff will also be on hand to speak to residents at Acomb Front Street throughout April/May.
Following these events a letter will be sent to all households on the affected streets with a local plan of proposals and an explanation on how to make formal representations to the council.
The signed-only 20mph speed limits are designed to be largely self-enforcing and aim to support, strengthen and work alongside the many existing traffic calmed 20mph zones that are already in place in many residential streets and around schools in the West of the city.
Following consideration of resident’s representations their comments will be fed back to a decision session for consideration before the introduction of the proposed 20mph limits. The planned introduction is set to be in place in spring/summer 2013 and will ensure that the majority of residential roads and neighbourhoods will have a lower speed limit to help reduce speeds where people live”.
Only problem is that anyone accessing http://www.york20mph.org/ will find only the usual array of juvenile artwork and shallow arguments. Still no sign of the revised detailed proposals promised months ago.
We continue to believe that every household in West York should be consulted. Excluding those living in existing 20 mph zones – as well as the small numbers living on streets which will retain a 30 mph limit – would potentially bias the results of any survey.
A public meeting, which includes an item on the 20 mph limit, will take place at Dringhouses Primary School on Thursday, May 2. The meeting starts at 7:30pm