Robin Studd launches Gallowstree safety petition

Robin Studd has launched a petition to try to get the County Council to improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists at the Gallowstree roundabout.

“The work the County has done on the roundabout has widened the roads and enabled cars to travel faster through the roundabout,” says Robin. “The result is that it has become more difficult and dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists to cross the roads. That is particularly bad news for students and for the children who have to cross the road to get to school.”

“I have raised this matter with the County Council, but so far they have failed to deal with the safety issues.”

“Now I’m asking everyone who can to sign my online petition and put extra pressure on the County Council to take these safety concerns seriously.”

Date18th May 2010  Authorwebmaster  CategoryCampaigns, Local, News, Petitions   

One Response

  1. wenslie naylon - April 10, 2010

    this is the letter I wrote to The Sentinel in November last year on this matter

    Dear Sir
    Councillors local to the area and senior officers of Newcastle Borough
    Council were given a preview of the Gallowstree Lane roundabout scheme
    this week. Looking at the vast scale of the shoring up and banking
    constructions and the huge central roundabout it was easy to see why
    the cost has soared to several millions. I asked where the Pelican
    crossing was going, knowing as we do ,that large numbers of
    schoolchildren walk from Silverdale to Newcastle Community High School

    The chief engineer’s response was this;’we wouldn’t put in one as it
    would slow the rate of traffic’ Now this is an understandable response
    from a man whose job is all about traffic volume and flows, but
    Councillor NIgel Jones and myself were astounded at this lack of
    recognition of the much more urgent issue in our view, of the need for
    hapless, mostly young pedestrians to get a better, safer deal in this
    project than a s single standard width island refuge .

    The impression we got on our preview is that this will be a high
    speed junction with motorway style lighting columns and and that
    anyone not in a car is not catered for.It will be a hostile and bleak
    environment for them

    Pelican crossings would restore some sense of the scheme being
    designed for all our Newcastle residents not just the car borne
    through drivers

    I urge the engineers to have second thoughts on this before the scheme
    gets any further

    Yours faithfully

    C’llr Wenslie Naylon