Healthy Streets St Ann’s Survey

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Permalink Reply by Luci on February 5, 2021 at 9:23

I thought part of the problem is that there isn't a 20 mph limit on all streets - it applies on many but some very busy main roads have higher limits.  A lot of those main roads have lots of homes immediately on them as well as on side roads, schools, shops etc. At crossings on West Green Road and St Ann's Road, many of them zebra crossings, I feel that I have to wait and see if cars are actually going to slow down before I start to use the crossing. Where there are lights, I don't know whether car drivers are going to apply their assumed personal exception theories and jump the lights, so again, sometimes it's not safe to use the beginning of a signalled crossing time as a pedestrian. Then there's working out what cyclists are doing - I understand they face issues too but I think changes need to redistribute space from cars, not protect that while taking more space from pedestrians for half-hearted concessions to cyclists.

And the areas near Sainsburys are truly awful, both on Green Lanes and along Hermitage Road, in different ways. How has a private company been allowed to mark off a stretch of pavement as their own private car park - no one should be parking there.

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Permalink Reply by Penguin on February 5, 2021 at 7:40

I don’t use the cycle way at Cleveland Gardens or Warwick Gardens anymore because it is a very busy rat run for motor scooters and sick of nearly being hit by them. Complained to a councillor and got an email shrug of the shoulders.

So, good luck!

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