Campaigns against speeding may link up
Thursday, 27th September 2001.
A LONG-STANDING campaigner for measures to slow traffic in Crowland Road, Haverhill, says he hopes residents in Withersfield Road will have more success with their efforts to end speeding.
Albert Wade, who is in his 80s, has lived in Crowland Road for more than 50 years and has seen speeding traffic past his home build up to create “an accident waiting to happen’.
Mr Wade hopes to link up with Tim and Margaret Marks, who have enlisted the help of MP Richard Spring, after gathering a 100-signature petition calling for action on the high number and speed of vehicles in Withersfield Road.
Mr Spring has also written to Suffolk County Council on Mr Wade’s behalf about Crowland
Road, but he has been told that no measures are planned there.
Crowland Road became busier when traffic restrictions were imposed in Haverhill town centre and Mr Wade said it was also used as a short-cut to get to the industrial estate.
Many residents have nowhere else to park their cars but outside their homes and parked vehicles mean traffic speeds through to avoid getting blocked in.
“I have lived here a long time and it has got more and more dangerous. I know it will always be a busy road, I am not asking for humps or anything, just to slow the traffic down to 30 mph.
“There are a lot of elderly people living there and I think it an accident waiting to happen. We do get the traffic warden down here sometimes, but he cannot here all the time.
“At weekends there is any room between the vehicles. The council say they do a survey, but they never any action,” Mr Wade said.
A spokesman for St Edmundsbury Borough Council said had no plans to introduce measures in Crowland Road present.
Albert Wade, who is in his 80s, has lived in Crowland Road for more than 50 years and has seen speeding traffic past his home build up to create “an accident waiting to happen’.
Mr Wade hopes to link up with Tim and Margaret Marks, who have enlisted the help of MP Richard Spring, after gathering a 100-signature petition calling for action on the high number and speed of vehicles in Withersfield Road.
Mr Spring has also written to Suffolk County Council on Mr Wade’s behalf about Crowland
Road, but he has been told that no measures are planned there.
Crowland Road became busier when traffic restrictions were imposed in Haverhill town centre and Mr Wade said it was also used as a short-cut to get to the industrial estate.
Many residents have nowhere else to park their cars but outside their homes and parked vehicles mean traffic speeds through to avoid getting blocked in.
“I have lived here a long time and it has got more and more dangerous. I know it will always be a busy road, I am not asking for humps or anything, just to slow the traffic down to 30 mph.
“There are a lot of elderly people living there and I think it an accident waiting to happen. We do get the traffic warden down here sometimes, but he cannot here all the time.
“At weekends there is any room between the vehicles. The council say they do a survey, but they never any action,” Mr Wade said.
A spokesman for St Edmundsbury Borough Council said had no plans to introduce measures in Crowland Road present.
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