Have your say on speed limit changes - video
KEY decisions affecting two major roads in Grimsby are soon to be finalised – and you can have your say.
Proposals are in place to slash the current limits on Station Road, Waltham, from 60mph to 40mph, and from 40mph to 30mph, to improve safety for pupils of Toll Bar Business and Enterprise College.
However, plans to raise the speed limit of Grimsby's Peaks Parkway from 30mph to 40mph have been rejected by North East Lincolnshire Council, following claims from Humberside Police that it could lead to an increase in road accidents.
Both matters will now be put out for a final public consultation and if no objections are received, the council's recommendations will be put in place.
As yet no date has been set for the consultation to begin – and no deadline has been given for interested parties wishing to respond.
For more information, see today's Grimsby Telegraph.
Let us know what you think by commenting on this story, emailing newsdesk@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk or calling (01472) 372236.
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by Ever the Optimist, Here
Tuesday, March 16 2010, 4:15PM
“Well since it has been mentioned, I will comment on the Laceby bypass. I hope that Cllr Burgess is now happy that he has singlehandedly made a perfectly safe road into a death trap. Nothing to do with speed! It is the dangerous bunching of cars being OH so particular and deeming 50 too fast and imposing ridiculously slow speeds on people wanting to go about their buisness. All that happens is that cars are bunched together making any manouver on the road potentially lethal. That road is more than capable of 60MPH, it needs putting up to that to make it safe.”
by John, At home
Monday, March 15 2010, 9:15PM
“Jimbo makes a fair point. At two hours per day and for less than 200 days per year the congestion actually condenses to just about 18 days per year.”
by warrior, Cleethorpes
Monday, March 15 2010, 7:27PM
“There's an address to write to in to-nights GT.
I suggest all protester (there will be more than those who agree) write to it. Flood them with your protests, public opinion just might make them change their minds.
Development Management Services,
Origin 2,
2 Origin Way,
Europarc, Grimsby.”
by show some sense in, Grimsby
Monday, March 15 2010, 6:50PM
“Chris, Scunthorpe - I wondered how long it would be before soemone mentioned Laceby Bypass. I drive the road daily, and whilst some flout the law, most do not. By the way Chris, I hope you realise the police still enforce from the platform that you probably drive past "foot flat down"? Here's hoping they take you and all the other irresponsible idiots off the road soon!”
by Zoe, grimsby
Monday, March 15 2010, 6:41PM
“I would agree with the last two comments from k and jimbo.
This problem needs to be solved by the school and council working together. I do think that the school has to take a far greater degree of responsiblity for the traffic issues. They should move the entrance for starters.
The council should also look more closely at the commuting distance of pupils attending tollbar. Signhills school (the areas largest priamary school) is now one of the main feeder schools for tollbar and yet it is over 5 miles away! how can this work?? it is this reason why there are so many so called chealsea tractors stopping and dropping kids off. This should not be necessary as ALL pupils should live within a 30 min walk of their secondary school and thus not need to be driven to school.
A larger issue comes to bare here in that tollbar is by far the best and most popular school in NELC and perhaps more effort should be made to bring the other schools for example Lindsey School up to standard so that cleethorpes parents can send their kids to a quality local school rather than shipping them out to tollbar.
Rather ironically it seems to have fallen to tollbar to fix lindsey and i just hope lindsey doesn't become a dumping ground for the kind of kids that the main tollbar school doesn't want on roll!”