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Car overturns at site where funding for speeding signs was turned down
Residents have voiced anger at a lack of action after funding for vehicle-activated speeding signs was turned down on a known ‘rat run’.
They spoke out after a driver overturned a car on the junction of Ridgeway Road and Dominion Road earlier this month.
“How much longer do we have to put up with this level of road danger on our streets?” asked Mary Stevens on Twitter after the incident.
is needed now More than ever
The junction in Fishponds is known to be a rat-run between Fishponds Road and Lodge Causeway.
It is often used by pedestrians, buggies and bikes due to the area being close to a primary school, a park and a key access route to the Bristol & Bath Railway Path.
A driver overturned a car on the junction of Ridgeway Road and Dominion Road earlier this month – photo: Mary Stevens
Residents have been campaigning for measures to address speeding and the volume of traffic since 2018. The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) application was recently turned down.
Stevens said: “Last week we heard that our application for CIL funding for vehicle-activated speeding signs on our Bristol street had been turned down.”
“We’ve had meetings with Kerry McCarthy, we’ve surveyed over 600 residents, with door-to-door surveys. What more are we supposed to do?
“There’s already a 20mph limit, but it’s ignored. In 2017, 98 per cent of drivers in one direction (and 77 per cent in the other) were exceeding the limit. In 15 years, there have been over 50 collisions.”
Residents plan to start a community speed watch but feel it is unfair to act as an “unpaid traffic warden” when many have full time jobs and caring responsibilities.
Bristol24/7 has contacted Hillfields councillors Craig Cheney and Ellie King, and Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy for comment.
Main photo: Mary Stevens
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