Mill Road Petition - Action Needed Now!
Rumours that Mill Road is going to be closed are unfounded. (See article below.) The really important news is that the County tried this week to scrap Mill Road’s funding for an accident reduction scheme, or at the very least to postpone it indefinitely.
We agreed with officers that the Watchman speed cameras would be expensive and ineffective, but were furious to discover that no other alternatives were being considered. Nichola Harrison and I expressed our extreme disappointment about this at the AJC, and orchestrated a vote to reinstate action on Mill Road as an urgent priority. After all, it has the third highest road-traffic accident frequency in the entire county. To remove it from this list would be absurd.
We are now launching a petition to have Mill Road restored to the priority list for funding.
Our petition statement reads:
We want Mill Road to become a civilised and safe public space for everyone.
We, the undersigned, call for the County Council not to drop its commitment to reducing accidents on Mill Road and to make urgent progress with consulting the public on what is needed.
We are collecting signatures on weekends and weekday evenings. You can also sign our petition online, by clicking on this link.
For further details of our plans for the area click on this link to The Mill Road Masterplan.
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