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by Lib Dem team on 1 April, 2011
There was a car crash on St. Ann’s Road North this morning – serious enough for the police to attend and someone to be taken to hospital.
I don’t know the details, but it may be connected to concerns Pam, myself and local residents have been raising with the amount of traffic on the road, more aggressive driving and the problem of cars from Cheadle Royal starting to park along the road.
Although there are definitely no easy answers, we’re looking at all of those problems in detail, getting ideas from residents and hopefully finding ways to improve the situation at least a little.
5 Comments
If the stupid chicanes were removed from this road, it would make things better – I know they were put there years ago when it was a bus route, but there are more near m isses because of cars having to go onto the right hand side of the road or try and get round before the oncoming cars!! And I have actually seen cars drive on the pavement to the left of the chicane bollards – don’t tell me these chicanes are helping safety on this road now!!!!!!
couldn’t agree more. Chicanes cause more problems than they solve.
20mph!- it is regarded as the minimum by a large proportion of users of this road. The chicanes do something towards controlling speed for drivers whose idea of law is “if I can get away with it”. A better answer would be several unobtrusive, alive, recorded and acted upon speed cameras. Pity the ConLib government is to stop their use and transfer the costs to the victims of crashes that result!
There should be more chicanes and fewer speed bumps in my opinion – if people are driving on the pavement to avoid the chiane then a bollard should be placed there to prevent them. As has been said, 20mph is the speed limit on this road – it should be virtually impossible to crash into another car at this speed if you are paying attention.
The main problem with the 20mph limit is that you have to keep to it for such a long time for the length of St Ann’s Rd North – in future town planning, housing estates should be provided with more in/out routes to the main roads than the lakes estate has – one radical step that might help on this front were if the was an entrance to the Cheadle Royal business park from St Ann’s Rd North.
As a user of the business park I can say that people are parking there to save a 30 minute traffic queue to get from the business park to finney lane, having only one entrance / exit from the park onto a busy roundabout is ludicrous