Single lane traffic through Lower Bengeo
On Monday 16 January 2012 the district and county councillors on the East Herts Highways Joint Member Panel turned down the idea of using cameras and computers to stop drivers cutting through our estate to beat the queues in town.
The recommendations they agreed were to as follows:
- clearer signs telling drivers not to cut through the estate unless they have legitimate business in it
- yellow lines on some of the junctions in lower Bengeo
- more enforcement of the morning rush hour right turn ban into Cross Road by the police
- encourage the police to explore more regular enforcement of the access only ban using on board cameras.
The story was covered in the Mercury of Thursday 19 January and you can read it here.
If you really want to go into detail the papers the councillors were given to discuss are in report number 5 (pages 27 to 56) of the agenda pack at eastherts.gov.uk. The discussion at the previous (7 November 2011) meeting is covered at number 29 in the minutes at the front of the pack.
The route of the current rat run
You can read what residents from all over the town think about it in the Traffic And Parking section of the Discover Hertford Online Forum but I recommend you take a deep breath first of all as some quite extreme views expressed there. If you’re up to it go to hertford.net. Interestingly they are all focussing on the Byde St/ Wellington St/ Nelson St area. What nobody seems to have picked up is the problems of traffic speed on The Avenue past the school, the shops and around the bend past Lys Hill Gardens. So by all means have your say there.
As always, if you have any thoughts on this you’d like to share with the MRA committee of other members of the association please email us on enquiries@molewood.org.uk.