Gary Congram has an e-petition on the County Council website that onlineFOCUS readers might be interested in signing:
Petition Overview:
We wish a traffic analysis to be conducted for 7 consecutive days of Lower Road, Ferry Road, Hullbridge Road and Watery Lane at a time when all roads are functional and no school or public holidays are happening during this period. Previous analysis have been done between Sept and Nov.,
Further Details:
In accordance with the Essex Resilience program and also community safety the community of Hullbridge would like to understand and identify the risks to them relating to the local highways. In order to achieve this the community need to understand, volume of traffic, types of traffic, speed of traffic, per each direction on the above mentioned roads. This needs to be per hour, per day. The community believe there has been a significant increase in the past 5 years of vehicles passing through the village especially HGV’s. The services infrastructure for the village and surrounding area run along and under these roads and some were built and not upgraded since the 1930’s and 50’s. As a result there has been a number of breakages in pipe work. There is also an increase in traffic accidents being reported as per essex highways Traffweb application http://www.essexworkstraffweb.org.uk/main.html#
You can find it and sign it here.
When will the work be completed on Watery Lane, I am surprised there have been no comments on this site about the delays around Rawreth Lane recently. I feel for the residents of Hullbridge, its bad enough living off Rawreth Lane.
I still feel there is a need for a slip road from Rawreth Lane at Hambro Parade to take vehicles left turning to Hullbridge. It would also help lorries turning left from scaring traffic and pedestrians coming in the other direction. The idea has been rejected previously due to the cost.
No confidence in Highways to do anything. Look at the state of Norman Crescent, Kings Farm and the massive holes at the junction Eastview and Mortimer Road. Last one reported on 7th Jan.
Geoff – until 20th October I believe from an Echo link I saw.
Well , in the absence of any other Parish / Town or District Council leadership , about 50 people demonstrated ( with placards ) at both Hambro Corner and at Tesco in the London Road coincident with rush hour .
It was covered by both The Evening Echo and Essex Radio and received pretty unanimous ‘Toots of support ‘ from the motorists stuck in the usual gridlock – the
Message was quite clear NO development without INFRASTRUCTURE upgrade ie:
ROADS.
I was there, we were even tooted by traffic police officers, our highlight was observing councillor cutmore sitting in traffic at the lights, forced to drive past us slowly en route to the council meeting. At no time did we hold up traffic as we positioned ourselves where traffic was crawling anyway or stationary due to the lights. We witnessed crawling traffic from 4.30pm until 7 pm when we finished. We also witnessed at tesco’s their HGV lorry park in London Road and drop the tailgate rather than use their car park, thus rayleigh bound traffic had to overtake into oncoming traffic. One of our spoke to the manager and he moved the delivery lorry out of the main road into a side road. Just stopping for 10 minutes caused traffic to back up Hatfield Rd, victoria Rd and Wheatley chase. Nothing moved in London Rd, about two cars overtook until the lorry moved.
Well done to those responsible for the Demo .Made the point so well In the long run Beeches Road and Watery lane are not the answer .Goverment need to bite the bullet and look to bridge the Crouch near to South Woodham to provide an outer ring road linking in to the A 132 and upgrading the turnpike where provision is already in place to provide a new layout. It will not be cheap but if we are expected to expand this peninsula then there is no other way .
Laudable effort on the protest I just wish that Linda Kendall and her secret committee had given greater notice for this and the “walkabout ” in rayleigh on Saturday, many people have other commitments and with just two days notice these often cant be changed. It is testament to the depth of feeling that so many turned out
Hope she did a collection for her fighting fund
Gary’s Petition is a must sign, but we need a simalar survey for the Top of Crown Hill and London Hill where a lot of the London Road traffic ends up, Countrysides surveys conveniently ommitted this as well