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Road safety in Trowbridge discussed at board meeting

1:14pm Wednesday 23rd November 2011 in Trowbridge

Assessing pedestrians safety around The Shires Gateway was one the issues discussed at last Thursday's Trowbridge Area Board meeting.

Board members agreed to look at ways to improve people's safety crossing Bythesea Road after hearing results of a recent survey which showed where walkers were crossing the busy main route.

Also at the meeting, members awarded The Amber Foundation a community area grant of £4,400 to run a pilot environmental project with homeless young people that will provide them with skills and accredited training.

Two area board projects were also funded; one by Seymour Tenant & Resident Association (TARA for £5.640.50 to buy catering/kitchen equipment for the Seymour Hub, which will provide a meeting space for the residents of Seymour and the surrounding area, and another of £8,000 for a town hall study to investigate the feasibility of a community arts facility at the Town Hall as part of the council’s transfer of community assets.

Trowbridge Community Area Futures, the Community Area Partnership for the area, was also awarded £11,220 as their second and final tranche of funding for 2011/12.

The meeting also agreed the Community Area Transport Group’s recommendations for £5,000 to create dropped kerbs around Trowbridge and Hilperton, with matched funding coming from the parish and town councils where the dropped kerbs are located.

Comments(14)

sirroms says...
2:00pm Wed 23 Nov 11

The Shires Gateway crossing is an accident waiting to happen! They should have built a bridge over rom Asda to the Gateway, many times I have seen people taking their life in their hands crossing over the narrow strip at the entrance. I know there is a pedestrian crossing 50 yds up the road but people just dont want to walk that far laden down with arms full of shopping! Wasn't pedestrian convenience looked at when the plans were signed off?

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nomemory2 says...
5:56pm Wed 23 Nov 11

dont forget the idiots that walk past the crossing to cross at the garage to enter asda

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Zapper says...
10:37pm Wed 23 Nov 11

It all seems to have been very badly thought out from the begining. All those traffic lights and a roundabout in such a small section of road can only lead to dangers to pedestrians and congested traffic not to mention the entrance to the filling station.
Trowbridge has a really good choice of shops including some of the big names but the dangers of getting to those shops are going to put people off. I do think it needs to be sorted out but how big is the bill going to be for the taxpayer. The bridge that sirroms mentions would be an answer, the cost I would guess would be high but what price do we put on the life of a pedestrian?

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moocherx says...
8:57am Thu 24 Nov 11

It would've taken 5 minutes for someone to visit the area, try to cross, see where they naturally would want to do so (at the point of most convenience), and recommend the plans are adjusted accordingly. Sheer laziness. But this approach to design is common, not just isolated to Bythesea Road.

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Kizzy says...
9:01am Thu 24 Nov 11

How about pedestrians use the crossing that is already there instead. It's not that much further down the road from where people cross now, and is opposite the pedestrian entrance for The Shires Car Park.

It's at the end of the row of shops by the cafe, so I can't see how it would make much more of a difference to their day taking those few extra steps to the crossing, when they are choosing to cross the road between Next (which is next door to the cafe) and the garage. And there is also a crossing further up the road which isn't too far from the shops.

I feel the current crossing availability is suitable for the needs of the area, and the pedestrians who don't use it need a reminder on road safety.

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Kizzy says...
9:01am Thu 24 Nov 11

How about pedestrians use the crossing that is already there instead. It's not that much further down the road from where people cross now, and is opposite the pedestrian entrance for The Shires Car Park.

It's at the end of the row of shops by the cafe, so I can't see how it would make much more of a difference to their day taking those few extra steps to the crossing, when they are choosing to cross the road between Next (which is next door to the cafe) and the garage. And there is also a crossing further up the road which isn't too far from the shops.

I feel the current crossing availability is suitable for the needs of the area, and the pedestrians who don't use it need a reminder on road safety.

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Kizzy says...
9:01am Thu 24 Nov 11

How about pedestrians use the crossing that is already there instead. It's not that much further down the road from where people cross now, and is opposite the pedestrian entrance for The Shires Car Park.

It's at the end of the row of shops by the cafe, so I can't see how it would make much more of a difference to their day taking those few extra steps to the crossing, when they are choosing to cross the road between Next (which is next door to the cafe) and the garage. And there is also a crossing further up the road which isn't too far from the shops.

I feel the current crossing availability is suitable for the needs of the area, and the pedestrians who don't use it need a reminder on road safety.

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mazzer76 says...
10:56pm Thu 24 Nov 11

I have noticed some idiots place the front two wheels of their childs buggies on the road while they stay safely on the pavement hoping cars will just stop, too lazy and too stupid I guess to use a crossing provided, God forbid they burn a few extra calories walking a bit further.

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trelawney says...
4:37pm Fri 25 Nov 11

Wheelchair.....baby.
...25 points easy....be a double if granny there as well.....must get that aiming mark on my merc calibrated and get over therel!!

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jigsaw 5 says...
10:05pm Fri 25 Nov 11

i can see lovely metal bars fence/railings being put up from exit of the asda petrol station right around (the corner where everyone crosses) to the entrance of the petrol station to make people walk up to either pedestrian crossing. Its the cheapest way i think the council can do it.

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moonrakin wurzel says...
9:39pm Sun 27 Nov 11

The bizarre sequencing of the traffic lights on the Gateway entrance should get a facepalm of the year award.

At 1am approaching from County Hall with no other vehicles around - the lights go from green to red when they sense a vehicle - how does that work then?

Wiltshire Council traffic management = epic fail - and we're all the poorer for it too (unless you's a council employee) The new TRO they're "consulting" about 6 months after they told those "in the know" what they were going to do - looks like an object lesson in "if it ain't broke bugger about with it until it really is broke"

Woeful.

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trollbridge says...
11:08am Tue 29 Nov 11

A shared space solution here with some thought would work well, but it's unfortunate that this was not properly addressed when the highway modelling etc was submitted with the developers application. I feel they (the developer) got away with the cheapest option. God save us from pedestrian guard rails though, when the rest of the world are getting rid of them and making attractive highway spaces. Common sense here not corralling needed.

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jigsaw 5 says...
2:51pm Tue 29 Nov 11

only one option left is put mini roundabout where traffic lights ( i think council expected major volumes of cars parking behind boots/argos etc) are at the moment by job centre. then half way between both roundabouts build a staggered zebra/pedestrian crossing, keeping the right turn into petrol station. Bit tight for space but it should keep better flow and safety for all.

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jigsaw 5 says...
2:51pm Tue 29 Nov 11

only one option left is put mini roundabout where traffic lights ( i think council expected major volumes of cars parking behind boots/argos etc) are at the moment by job centre. then half way between both roundabouts build a staggered zebra/pedestrian crossing, keeping the right turn into petrol station. Bit tight for space but it should keep better flow and safety for all.

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