Help us change our residential road from being a place where speeding cars dominate and parents and pet owners live in constant fear of there being an accident. We want to force drivers to use major roads (Dyke Road) instead of ours where more than fifty children live and play, and get support from the council with traffic calming to make speeding impossible
Updates
October 3, 2015
The stories shared in the comments regarding near misses on our street highlight the persistent danger we face daily. I am currently compiling these accounts to present our formal request for traffic calming measures to the local council.
October 3, 2015
The momentum behind this petition highlights how many of us prioritize the safety of our residential streets over the convenience of a shortcut. This level of engagement provides a clear mandate as we prepare to bring our concerns to the council for official review.
29 Comments
The speeding on our road has got out of hand and needs to be stopped before there is an accident. I work from home and witness speeding cars all through the day. The new 20mph limit has made no difference what so ever and driver don't respect that this is a residential area. More than 50 children live here and hundreds of school children pass by every day.
The speeding is getting worse, Reigate Road was a quiet place when we first got here 27 years ago. I agree with chicanes, no sleeping policemen, as people speed to it, then accelerate again after, increasing pollution. A few chicanes with flowers maybe.
As a resident of Reigate Road I am astounded with the volume and speed of vehicles particularly between 8:30 and 09:00. Calming measures are need now.
Along with many local families, I walk down Reigate Road in order to take my children to school. The heavy flow of traffic and the speed at which cars travel along this stretch makes it really quite dangerous for pedestrians, especially for a child to cross the road on his/her own. It is for this reason that many parents are still accompanying their children to school even though the children are keen and old enough to walk by themselves.
I spend a lot of time at home in Reigate Road and I am astounded at and concerned by the speed that vehicles travel down this road. This has to stop. This road is used by many pedestrians and children and it simply isn't safe. I would welcome any official to spend the morning or afternoon in my front room watching the traffic! Please take this with the seriousness it deserves.
My brother was hit by a car at four years old - not a speeding car, so he survived, but lives with the disabilities his severe brain injury caused him, and does not have the life he would have had, is not the person he would have been. Such accidents, real-life nightmares, are preventable, by making responsible decisions about the environments we live in, of prioritising the lives and safety of the most vulnerable in our community over the freedom to plough the fastest route to work. Better to add 5 minutes to the commute than be involved in an accident. Reigate Road should be access only, at least at rush hour - it should not be abused as a 'cut through' as it is now.
I agree with all the comment regarding Reigate rd. It is used as a shortcut especially at school drop off and pick up time. They make the intersection at the corner of Reigate rd, Highcroft villas and Millers rd incredibly dangerous to cross, especially for our lollipop lady, Helen. I have seen drivers totally ignoring her presence in the middle of the road many times. The knock on effect of any intervention also need to be considered. We live on Inwood Crescent, which, I presume, because it is wider, seems to be used as a cut through for Compton rd. Would speed restriction measured need to be considered on these parallel roads too?
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Help us change our residential road from being a place where speeding cars dominate and parents and pet owners live in constant fear of there being an accident. We want to force drivers to use major roads (Dyke Road) instead of ours where more than fifty children live and play, and get support from the council with traffic calming to make speeding impossible
Updates
October 3, 2015
The stories shared in the comments regarding near misses on our street highlight the persistent danger we face daily. I am currently compiling these accounts to present our formal request for traffic calming measures to the local council.
October 3, 2015
The momentum behind this petition highlights how many of us prioritize the safety of our residential streets over the convenience of a shortcut. This level of engagement provides a clear mandate as we prepare to bring our concerns to the council for official review.
29 Comments
I'm sure the same idiots speed along here now as did before 20mph was introduced, but they don't down Hollingury Road and never have. It's a shortcut to Lewes Road, it's wider than Reigate, there's an incline, it should be worse, but it isn't because it has speed bumps.
The speeding on our road has got out of hand and needs to be stopped before there is an accident. I work from home and witness speeding cars all through the day. The new 20mph limit has made no difference what so ever and driver don't respect that this is a residential area. More than 50 children live here and hundreds of school children pass by every day.
The speeding is getting worse, Reigate Road was a quiet place when we first got here 27 years ago. I agree with chicanes, no sleeping policemen, as people speed to it, then accelerate again after, increasing pollution. A few chicanes with flowers maybe.
As a resident of Reigate Road I am astounded with the volume and speed of vehicles particularly between 8:30 and 09:00. Calming measures are need now.
Along with many local families, I walk down Reigate Road in order to take my children to school. The heavy flow of traffic and the speed at which cars travel along this stretch makes it really quite dangerous for pedestrians, especially for a child to cross the road on his/her own. It is for this reason that many parents are still accompanying their children to school even though the children are keen and old enough to walk by themselves.
I spend a lot of time at home in Reigate Road and I am astounded at and concerned by the speed that vehicles travel down this road. This has to stop. This road is used by many pedestrians and children and it simply isn't safe. I would welcome any official to spend the morning or afternoon in my front room watching the traffic! Please take this with the seriousness it deserves.
My brother was hit by a car at four years old - not a speeding car, so he survived, but lives with the disabilities his severe brain injury caused him, and does not have the life he would have had, is not the person he would have been. Such accidents, real-life nightmares, are preventable, by making responsible decisions about the environments we live in, of prioritising the lives and safety of the most vulnerable in our community over the freedom to plough the fastest route to work. Better to add 5 minutes to the commute than be involved in an accident. Reigate Road should be access only, at least at rush hour - it should not be abused as a 'cut through' as it is now.
I agree with all the comment regarding Reigate rd. It is used as a shortcut especially at school drop off and pick up time. They make the intersection at the corner of Reigate rd, Highcroft villas and Millers rd incredibly dangerous to cross, especially for our lollipop lady, Helen. I have seen drivers totally ignoring her presence in the middle of the road many times. The knock on effect of any intervention also need to be considered. We live on Inwood Crescent, which, I presume, because it is wider, seems to be used as a cut through for Compton rd. Would speed restriction measured need to be considered on these parallel roads too?
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I'm sure the same idiots speed along here now as did before 20mph was introduced, but they don't down Hollingury Road and never have. It's a shortcut to Lewes Road, it's wider than Reigate, there's an incline, it should be worse, but it isn't because it has speed bumps.