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Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
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Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
Styal Road speeding and speed cameras
by Lib Dem team on 12 September, 2014
The Lib Dem team is currently working on making Styal Road safer. When we surveyed residents, one of the suggestions that came up (and, we though, a good one) was to put up a speed camera.
But, as usual, it’s more complicated than that. There are fairly strict rules about where speed cameras can be erected, in part to avoid them being used as a fund-raiser.
Unfortunately Styal Road would not qualify for a speed camera as the numbers of accidents fall below the required threshold as determined by the camera partnership.
The Greater Manchester Casualty Reduction Partnership, or DRIVESAFE as it is also known, was formed to incorporate all aspects of road safety, including speeding and camera enforcement. The partnership is responsible for the management and establishment of safety cameras throughout Greater Manchester. All sites are kept under review, and the enforcement level depends on the accident/casualty and speed record. These are reviewed quarterly.
New sites are selected primarily upon on the basis of their history of Personal injury collisions, killed and serious injury collisions and problems of speed.
They have checked the latest road traffic incident statistics and they indicate there have been 7 slight injury incidents within the last 3 years (No Killed or Seriously injured). This means that it is unlikely that this site will feature on future proposals to install new fixed camera sites, as there are strict Government criteria attached to the establishment of new sites which presently, this section of road does not meet.
However the site is currently designated as a mobile site and receives enforcement using hand held radar; the Police were out most recently on 18th July, when several offenders were fined and the highest speed recorded was 40 mph.
A speed camera was just one of the suggestions made – we’re working on proposals and we’re hopeful that we can use the ideas from residents to put together a good proposal.
8 Comments
Long in the tooth – but any update
1. Kingsway right turns
2. Blind junction due overgrown hedges Daylesford Rd/Schools Hill
Hi Hamza,
Kingsway right turns – as you’ll recall, a right-turn filter isn’t an option at the moment – we know it would make other queues longer and the Highways Agency and TfGM won’t permit it. You’ll see at the junction that the lines have been moved out slightly just in the last few days, meaning that if you’re waiting to turn right you have better visibility to see gaps in the oncoming traffic. Our hope is that will allow more cars to safely turn right and reduce the queues a bit.
Daylesford/Schools Hill – last time I checked the hedge wasn’t actually overgrown, so there’s no easy legal option for the Council (if it’s overgrown, we can get it cut back). We’ll need to have more of a think about what we can do to improve the junction.
Part of the problem with the Kingsway right turn is that the signs leading up to the lights (and coming off the motorway sliproad) are WRONG!! They show all 3 lanes going straight up when the right hand lane is in fact turn right only into Gatley.
It’s not wonder that lane’s always full of people who shouldn’t be in it.
The RH lane coming off the motorway should be provided with a continuous white line to prevent it being used as an overtaking lane by Wilmslow bound speeders who pull in just before the lights. A highly dangerous move!
Lets have double white lines down Styal Rd and speed indicators PLEASE!
Silly me! I thought that the Law was to be obeyed as is. I did not realise that all the speeders I come across while walking and driving are allowed to break the law if they feel like it since cameras must not be used to extract fines if it annoys them. The extra noise, pollution and road surface damage from speeders are clearly not worth consideration. Anyway, the reduction in police officers and drastic loss of back office staff in recent times (in order to give impression of crime reduction by fiddled statistics) encourages the ‘get away with it’ society!
Glad to say that crime has continued to fall (we’d know from other sources if the figures were being fiddled to show a false drop). Money-making isn’t the only reason to restrict speed cameras: they’re also very expensive – between £50k and £100k for a camera.
Unless there’s a serious, proven problem with accidents on a road, it may well be more effective to spend that money on more police officers.
I do not see what is wrong with using speed cameras as cash raisers, especially given the cuts we are suffering. People should not speed.
Hi Trevor,
There’s an argument to be made there – but the current and previous governments have come down on the other side of it.
However, it’s worth considering that speed cameras aren’t cheap: £50,000 – £100,000 per camera. You need a lot of fines to turn a profit.