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Lib Dems tackle Styal Road speeding

by Lib Dem team on 25 March, 2015

The Lib Dems were out with council officers on Wednesday morning, working to tackle speeding along Styal Road in Gatley.

The speed limit along Styal Road is 30mph but residents have long complained of speeding. The road’s narrow and vehicles regularly end up going through walls and hedges.

We looked at having a flashing speed sign in each direction, plus some additional 30mph signs. Council officers are now going to work up a detailed plan and we’ll report back soon.

   9 Comments

9 Responses

  1. elsa says:

    thank you thank you

  2. Jane says:

    Good idea, but does anyone want one of these outside their house? I certainly don’t. We are close to the road (not set back) I my front window is my lounge – I just hope there will be consultation with residents who it might affect.

    I speak from experience. Where I used to live, I came home from work one day to find that Stockport Council had put solar panels all over the roofs of the bungalows opposite my house on a very narrow road, with no consultation whatsoever for the people who were directly affected. I moved house because of it.

  3. John Arnold says:

    lets have a little more positive action … a few signs and a speed camera box active or not will soon discourage speeders please can we also consider similar on massey street high pedestrian usage by a school and cars often accelarate to 40 -50 on the cut through to the illegal right turn to beat the lights onto the high street!!! or maybe cooperation with the local police a few mobile speed guns held at people will soon get noticed

  4. Tony Connolly says:

    Wouldn’t it be better to spend the money on a right-turn filter coming out of Cheadle turning on to the A34. For years now, motorists have been complaining about this junction. Motorists queueing to turn right are having to wait as moving cars as far back as Gatley train station make the lights coming the other way. We have now, hopefully, had the trial lights timing period which was agreed, but now it’s time to do what the intelligent amongst us have been saying for years, and put the filter on. I worked in Denton to 2 years and it was quicker, to drive to the co-op pyramid junction in Stockport to join the M60, than to use the junction 400 yards from my home. And another thing about speeding, before last Christmas, a 20 mph zone was declared on the Wilmslow Road/Cheadle Post office stretch, has it worked, no. Speed cameras stop it, not polite requests.

  5. Neville says:

    Dear Iain,

    As well as the speeding issue I sent a plan in with a suggested Box junction for traffic coming out of West Drive onto Styal road which is often blocked by cars stopped to turn right onto Hollyhedge Road. It’s a bad junction to get out of with limited visability along Styal Road and I also suggested the possability of a mirror opposite West Drive so that traffic coming towards Gatley could at least be seen.

    Is there any news on the two ideas?

    Many thanks
    Neville

  6. Norman Cartledge says:

    the inconsiderate and selfish will always flout the rules, its their nature. As someone has already said polite request to adhere to local speed limits are just ignored. Clock them and fine them is the only message they understand.

  7. jb says:

    Glad to hear that flashing speed indicator signs are, at last, to be installed on Styal Road. They need to be both ways between Brown Lane and Lomond Rd and between Yew Tree Grove and Styal Grove and they should not be temporary.

    Also, I believe there should be double white lines down the centre of the road at least between Stonepail Rd and Styal Grove and between Yew Tree Grove and Elmsleigh Rd but frankly all the way from Simonsway to Gatley might be simpler. Overtaking moving vehicles on these stretches can be very dangerous.

    Styal is a good example of where double white lines for the length of the village in the main, have calmed the traffic down.

  8. David Johnson says:

    The signs are obeyed by the law-abiding. It is the selfish and inconsiderate who ignore the law – whether static or flashing signs makes no difference! Only catching and convicting may convince them to behave.

  9. jb says:

    I notice that the hedge on Styal Rd near Lomond Rd shows signs of yet another vehicle having left the carriageway in the last week or so.

    While considering the road markings on Styal Rd, would the Council consider painting double yellow lines on both sides of the road between Yew Tree Grove and Lomond Rd. Since all the houses on this stretch have generous driveways, there is no need to leave a vehicle parked at the side of the road or half (or wholly) parked on the pavement. This practice introduces a quite unnecessary hazardous restriction.

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