Blaker's Park Safer Roads campaign (Preston Park)

This Road Safety petition campaign is being promoted by Preston Park Green Party as of today, 20 April 2011. It was launched 11 April, but when I signed it today it had only five signatures. I'll check in a week or so and see how many have in signed.

We the undersigned petition the council to improve the safety of pedestrians and cyclists on the roads surrounding Blakers Park; to introduce traffic calming measures and to put the safety of people before the car. Clearly marked pedestrian or raised paving crossings at Preston Drove, Cleveland Road and Southdown Road, a blanket 20 mph limit extending to surrounding roads and the narrowing of Cleveland Road at the Southern (Stanford Ave) end are necessary to improve the safety of our park's visitors. Please sign if you wish to make your view known.

The safety of pedestrians and cyclists using the roads around Blakers Park needs to be improved. The speed of cars along Preston Drove, Cleveland Road and Southdown Road is too high and, combined with the lack of safe crossing places to access the park, makes it a dangerous undertaking for pedestrians.

In particular, the very wide entrance to the south of Cleveland Road makes crossing the road at this point hazardous as cars turn into Cleveland Road at great speed from Stanford Avenue and frequently use the width to turn in a circle back onto Stanford Avenue or back up Cleveland Road. These actions adversely affect residents and children walking to nearby schools (Montessori & Downs).

The lack of pavements along the immediate edge of the Park on Cleveland and Southdown Roads means that pedestrians must walk outside parked cars at risk to their safety.

Additionally, that lack of pavement and the double parking of taxis outside the Montessori School (entrance on Cleveland Road) places young children at risk on a daily basis.

Although there is an island crossing at the north entrance to Blakers Park on Preston Drove, cars continue to drive quickly at this point and appear confused as to the purpose of the crossing. Sometime cars stop, often they do not. The island itself is quite narrow meaning few people can cross together.

For the vast numbers of people who visit Blakers Park, crossing the road is a dangerous undertaking before the reaching the safety of the park. It need not be. Please sign.

The petition and its paper counter-part will be presented to the Environment CMM on the 7th July 2011.

Started by: Noelle ORiordanBooth
This ePetition runs from 11/04/2011 to 24/06/2011.
To sign this petition, go to http://tinyurl.com/blakersroads