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Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
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Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
Keep Clear by Horse & Farrier, Gatley
by Lib Dem team on 28 November, 2014
Residents asked the Lib Dem team to get a Keep Clear box painted at the junction of Church Road and Gatley Road in Gatley so we were very pleased to see this week that the lines have been painted.
The new Keep Clear markings will help people turning out from Church Road to get onto Gatley Road safely.
8 Comments
CHEAP – and nasty with it !
Time for some ‘proper’ traffic regulation lights – surely ?
Will mean people coming down the high street will just be able to push in as they do on all the keep clear signs on this road especially like the one near Kingsway.
I’m pleased about this!
Coming from Styal Rd & needing to get to Kingsway, I go through Gatley Village & come out at the Horse & Farrier but can never get out during rush hour.
I’m not queue jumping – it’s the people nipping (at speed) down the side of the Co-op, coming out at the station that are queue jumping.
Am I expected to go in the wrong direction down Park Rd to join the back of the queue?
I am as irritated as anyone by people trying to get in front of others at busy times, but Church Road isn’t a short cut, Oakwood Road is.
Jane – sorry, but i have to disagree.
I am one of those people you describe as “nipping (at speed) down the side of the Co-op”. Well, i do that. I don’t speed along there though. Just to be clear.
I find that car drivers, at peak times, are more reasonable to traffic needing to come across from left or right at that turning than they are at the H&F Junction. Probably other commuters have sussed that too.
Let’s not blame people for just trying to get home to their family a few minutes sooner.
PS A Keep Clear box there will make no difference at all to improving traffic flow. Instead it will just increase the annoyance.
A one-way system is the only answer.
Overkill; the pedestrian lights already stop traffic coming from Gatley so traffic from High Street have always been able to move out when they were on stop. There was already a ‘Keep Clear’ box on the other side outside the Horse & Farrier, although faded – it just needed renewing. Now can we have one on the exit from the South Park Road Estate across all three lanes of the slip road.
The keep clear markings are a good thing. They wouldn’t be needed if drivers had consideration for other road users and allowed drivers out when the traffic lights were against them. Also it is a shame that when the roadworks were taking place in Cheadle village the traffic light island outside the Istanbul restaurant wasn’t made a little narrower so that traffic from Wilmslow Road turning left and right could sit side by side instead of creating a tail back because to do so is too tight.
Completely agree, Cheadle, outside Istanbul should have been sorted years ago, had my wing mirror knocked more than once there.
Given the difficulty to turn right from church road opp the H&F, especially at peak times, perhaps we should consider making Gatley Village Church Road a one-way route in the direction from the H&F towards the Styal Road junction. All traffic coming down Styal Road then would have to proceed past Church Road to the lights (and no cutting though the roads on the right allowed). If those lights could be load- and time-managed perhaps it would give better traffic flow past the H&F.
The bigger solution i believe is to allow more traffic flow time across the A34. Why are east-west commuters less important than the north-south A34 ones, as it appears at the moment. And if the Cheshire East housing developments get approved then the problem and frustration for us east-westers just gets worse.