Road safety is an issue raised by our readers at regular intervals, as illustrated by the post last Saturday, which has attracted a lot of interest and comments sharing the author’s concerns. Here are a couple of earlier posts on the same topic:
- Watch your speed (an accident February 2010)
- Speeding and other traffic concerns (Police report on local speed survey to the Parish Council September 2009)
It is great to see the increases in children playing out and in cycle use, and a majority (73%) of parwich.org readers support the idea of a 20mph speed limit in the village.
The Village Action Group raised the idea of the Parwich roads as a shared space (pedestrians having priority) including a 20mph speed limit with the Peak Park who are supportive of the idea. (These ideas grew out of the traffic survey undertaken in preparation for the new Memorial Hall planning application.)
Parwich Parish Council regularly discuss roads and footpaths at their monthly meetings. So look out for details of the next meeting.
Coincidently one of our readers has sent in these notes from a recent National Speed Awareness course: (more…)
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