Traffic surveys undertaken on Thanet Road and Moorcroft Road have provided evidence to support calls for action to tackle problem parking and speeding concerns.
The surveys were supported by local Lib Dem councillors though funding from the Dringhouses & Woodthorpe Ward Committee budget.
Residents’ concerns about speeding traffic and parking provision on Thanet Road have been backed up by the findings of the survey. The aim of the survey undertaken between 21st and 27th June was to gather evidence to support calls for safety measures to be put in place, following a number of accidents and incidents where residents’ cars have been damaged.
Thanet Road survey zone
Findings from the survey included:
- Ten near misses between two cars
- One near miss between a car and a HGV
- One near miss between two HGVs
Councillor Ashley Mason said “The findings from the survey will further strengthen our calls for action to improve road safety. We have written to the council’s Transport chief, including the survey findings, to ask that options be considered for an engineering solution.”
Parking problems on Moorcroft Road outside the doctors and dentists prompted the survey at that location, which was undertaken between 17th and 23rd July. The aim of the survey was to gather evidence on the nature of the parking problems which can cause the bus to get stuck and footpaths to be obstructed.
A previous proposal for extending double yellow lines outside the doctor’s surgery attracted some criticism, with the suggestion that double yellow lines outside the dentist would have more impact. However council officers opposed this suggestion.
Moorcroft Road survey zone
Some headline findings from the survey included:
- Three near misses between two cars
- Four near misses between a car and a bus
- One near miss between a car and a moped
- One near miss between a parked car and a mobility scooter
Councillor Stephen Fenton said “We will keep residents informed and engaged on further developments. In the meantime we recently arranged for the existing double yellow lines on Moorcroft Road to be re-painted, as they had almost faded away.
“We have been in contact with the new owners of the shops and car parks to ask that ‘Customer Parking Only’ signs be installed, in response to complaints about the car parks being used a ‘Park & Ride’. We have also asked for the overgrown vegetation to be cut back.”
While I know people can park outside properties as long as they do not block driveways – visitors and some residents in Eden Close and Orrin Close park and drive on footpaths, turn around on people’s drives and make it awkward for all of those who actually use their drives and don’t obstruct anyone. I do know it is illegal to drive on pavements.
Every fourth weekend so far a neighbour has a party in the garden until 1 and 2 in the morning and we are descended on by. Numerous cars, some park on the junction some block pavements so people who are out for a walk have to walk on roads or on peoples gardens.
Why can’t people be made to use their own drives (when some have 2) and as now we are hemmed in by people who park all night outside our properties.