Calling Cambridge people

[woolymonkey]

There's a petition to make Mill Rd safer here.

Please go sign if you haven't already!

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I would like Mill Road to be less hazardous, but I can't sign the petition.
The reason why is simple. Close Mill Road to traffic and it simply moves one road over onto Coldhams Lane, which is already itself bad. For my road, when Coldhams Lane sets -- rush hour, wet days, weekends, any time there's football, lunchtimes, Fridayu afternoons, Monday mornings, any school holiday -- it backs up from Newmarket Road down to Sainsburys and sometimes on beyond in all directions. Those of us living on/near it are then trapped at home. I worry that my elderly neighbours will literally be unable to cross it without an extra walk to a crossing (the nearest one to us is the zebra by Sainsburys, which many motorists -- especially those turning off the roundabout down towards it -- fail to pay attention to. I worry that even more cyclists will be run off the road by careless drivers. I worry that the Coldhams Lane bridge and junction will not be able to cope with the extra volume (the junction with Newmarket Road is already beyond capacity due to the Bee Hive trading centre).
Mill Road needs to have the loading rules properly enforced -- the traders asking for the traffic ban are the same people who take deliveries at all hours and block it (particularly between the bridge and the lights by Gwydir St). And the wardens might like to come over the bridge to the Broadway side occasionally and chase off the illegal parkers. But closing it, sadly, just shifts the problem onto some-one else's front door.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

I completely take your point about Coldham's Lane, but the petition isn't asking for Mill Rd to be closed to traffic. If you take a look, what it's actually asking for is action to make Mill Road safer after "consulting the public on what is needed."
I may be being naive, but I hope this means what it says. The petition isn't about demanding a particular solution for Mill Rd, but about asking the council
a) not to ignore it
b) to find out what people want before they do anything.
To me, that sounds like a chance for you to say exactly what you've said above, before rather than after they do something they won't want to reverse.
There's room for a comment on the petition form!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Ah, it's clearly moved on since the version I hears, which was to close it to through traffic (other than buses, taxis and bikes) at the bridge. It need something, I agree.
I tend to worry because we are technically in Romsey, but the council tend to forget us altogether except at vote time. It would be like them to 'protect' Romsey by penalising the part that abuts Coldhams Lane.
Much though I love a certain award winning grocer's, I wish they would stop having deliveries at 11 am!

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Reading the newsletter that goes with this link, I get the impression this is a response to the "stick bollards on the Mill Road bridge" proposal that took everyone by surprise. Probably more of the usual LibDem and Labour sniping at each others' ideas, but a bit of local consultation can't be bad.