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ID sylw: 63434

Derbyniwyd: 23/07/2013

Ymatebydd: Mr Dennis Michael Crips

Mitigation Scheme: Priory Road, Smith Street, St Nicholas Church Street Signalisation

-No evidence has been presented that pedestrian stages have been included in the signal cycle. Pedestrians including many elderly and partially disabled residents will be unable to gain safer access to the St Johns shops except by a 200m diversion to the existing St Johns/Coventry Road signals.
-If pedestrian stages have been included, then it will result in a loss of about 20% of highway capacity at peak times and it is therefore unlikely that the junction will be able to serve more vehicular traffic.
-If pedestrian stages gave been provided, then pedestrians will have to wait up to 3 separate signals to cross to the St Johns shops and a further 3 to return to the street.
-The signals have been proposed on the sole basis of peak hour estimates with schools in session. No evidence has been provided that they would be necessary at any other time. It is therefore likely that for 96.6% of the year, they will be unnecessary and will in fact create additional congestion and pollution by causing traffic to stop which is would be unnecessary.
-Visitors to the town centre would be faced with a veritable forest of signal heads as the foreground to the mature and pleasing townscape immediately behind.