Colchester estate could become 20mph zone (From Essex County Standard)
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Colchester estate could become 20mph zone
1:32pm Tuesday 29th January 2013 in News
Borough councillor Dave Harris celebrating with colleague Kim Naish (right) and residents Chris and Jo Aldous and Moji Otu
RESIDENTS have welcomed plans to make their new housing estate a 20mph zone.
Essex County Council has launched a consultation to introduce the speed limit to the Solus estate, off Berechurch Hall Road, Colchester.
Mum-of-three Jo Aldous said: “I’m pleased. We’ve got two young girls trying to learn how to ride their bikes and a 13-year-old son who kicks a football around.
“They don’t expect cars to be driving so fast.”
The estate has recently been formally adopted by Essex County Council, six years after being built by Taylor Wimpey.
A formal consultation to introduce the limit on Agnes Silverside Close, Helen Ewing Place, James Gore Drive, James Parnell Drive, John Hammond Close, John Mace Road, Richard Day Walk, Rose Allen Avenue and William Harris Way is set to follow this spring.
Comments(20)
JCoe1980
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2:42pm Tue 29 Jan 13
Plus I hardly think the police will wait on the road down the road for people speeding!
Jess Jephcott
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2:47pm Tue 29 Jan 13
Say It As It Is OK?
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3:03pm Tue 29 Jan 13
Route88
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3:06pm Tue 29 Jan 13
Scoot
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3:17pm Tue 29 Jan 13
romantic
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4:09pm Tue 29 Jan 13
Scoot wrote:If that´s true, then I broke the law almost every day from the age of 5 to 16, because we always used the road. Had to have 360 degree vision, because not everybody slowed down when they saw kids in the road!
Err isn't it against the law to play football on the public highway ??
Kids should be able to play in the street, at least in residential places with no through traffic. The hard bit is to get car drivers to accept the several seconds it will add to their very important journeys.
Boris
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4:17pm Tue 29 Jan 13
Scoot wrote:The report doesn't say that they do. They probably play on the grass verges but then the ball strays from time to time into the road. Perfectly normal, far better than them sitting indoors with a Playstation.
Err isn't it against the law to play football on the public highway ??
Roll on the day when all estate roads are limited to 20 mph. Keep 30 mph for main roads, but 20 everywhere else.
As the impatient Jess so rightly says, car drivers are generally anti-social.
Boris
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4:21pm Tue 29 Jan 13
romantic wrote:Well said, romantic. Car journeys are often important, but they are never urgent, unless the driver is rushing someone to hospital. People should leave home in good time, and not put others' lives at risk for their own trivil convenience.
Scoot wrote:If that´s true, then I broke the law almost every day from the age of 5 to 16, because we always used the road. Had to have 360 degree vision, because not everybody slowed down when they saw kids in the road!
Err isn't it against the law to play football on the public highway ??
Kids should be able to play in the street, at least in residential places with no through traffic. The hard bit is to get car drivers to accept the several seconds it will add to their very important journeys.
Boris
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4:22pm Tue 29 Jan 13
Im_Like_HELLO
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4:46pm Tue 29 Jan 13
Taximan01
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6:34pm Tue 29 Jan 13
Besides that, has anyone ever driven around the Solus estate? it's a nightmare! try finding a particular road\house in there & then try finding your way back out! Having driven around there a few times, personally I think you'd be quite lucky to hit 20 mph!
itsmyopinionthatcounts
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9:56pm Tue 29 Jan 13
SOMETHING2SAY wrote:They were my thoughts exactly when i read the article. It does seem a silly thing for a parent to come out with !!!
so no mention that the area has a school or elderly people...and yet kids are to take to the roads BEFORE they can cycle...and boys are encourged to kick a ball about amongst traffic...rather than go to a playing field......note the term " playing field " . Roads are for traffic ! Daft idea !
John Vencato
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10:29pm Tue 29 Jan 13
No development in this borough should be over 20 MPH in fact it should be more like 15 MPH our homes and the roads around residential housing are NOT race tracks.
What a joke that people should have to complain to reduce speed in built up areas.
John Vencato
jammin
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9:46am Wed 30 Jan 13
Sod living in any new build estate.. shoe horned in, road after road (or should that be drive after place?) of identical flats, cramped inside, cramped outside, no parking, no open spaces, poorly maintained roads...I could go on.....
The new estate behind the fiveways in Stanway is hiddeous! Compare that to Greenstead, big houses, plenty of open spaces, parking for everyone. Theres will be more crime in the new estates purely based on density of people!
Ritchie_Hicks
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12:03pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Jess Jephcott wrote:Well there's a sweeping comment if ever I've seen one.
Good to see Berechurch Road having the road repaired today although bad news ghetting caught by the traffic lights in two places. As to this 20 limit, can't see most people taking any notice of it. Car drivers are generally anti-social by nature.
Ritchie_Hicks
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12:06pm Wed 30 Jan 13
jammin wrote:Well said! It looks like one of those mock-up towns you see on films used for nuclear testing!
You can barely travel that fast in these rabbit warrens anyway.
Sod living in any new build estate.. shoe horned in, road after road (or should that be drive after place?) of identical flats, cramped inside, cramped outside, no parking, no open spaces, poorly maintained roads...I could go on.....
The new estate behind the fiveways in Stanway is hiddeous! Compare that to Greenstead, big houses, plenty of open spaces, parking for everyone. Theres will be more crime in the new estates purely based on density of people!
Justice79
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1:41pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Ritchie_Hicks wrote:But you are very quick to endorse another sweeping statement. Well done Ritchie!
jammin wrote:Well said! It looks like one of those mock-up towns you see on films used for nuclear testing!
You can barely travel that fast in these rabbit warrens anyway.
Sod living in any new build estate.. shoe horned in, road after road (or should that be drive after place?) of identical flats, cramped inside, cramped outside, no parking, no open spaces, poorly maintained roads...I could go on.....
The new estate behind the fiveways in Stanway is hiddeous! Compare that to Greenstead, big houses, plenty of open spaces, parking for everyone. Theres will be more crime in the new estates purely based on density of people!
Ritchie_Hicks
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1:48pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Justice79 wrote:No, a fact. Go a have a walk around the place............
Ritchie_Hicks wrote:But you are very quick to endorse another sweeping statement. Well done Ritchie!
jammin wrote:Well said! It looks like one of those mock-up towns you see on films used for nuclear testing!
You can barely travel that fast in these rabbit warrens anyway.
Sod living in any new build estate.. shoe horned in, road after road (or should that be drive after place?) of identical flats, cramped inside, cramped outside, no parking, no open spaces, poorly maintained roads...I could go on.....
The new estate behind the fiveways in Stanway is hiddeous! Compare that to Greenstead, big houses, plenty of open spaces, parking for everyone. Theres will be more crime in the new estates purely based on density of people!
co2
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10:29pm Wed 30 Jan 13
SOMETHING2SAY says...
2:11pm Tue 29 Jan 13