Not sure if everyone is aware, but following a consultation, the following proposals are to be put to the planning stage to determine support of objection: 1.To make Kingsbury Street one way, between the High Street & Silverless Street, with traffic flowing uphill; 2.Implement a 7.5 tonne weight limit on Kingsbury Street between the junctions of the High Street and The Common and on Silverless Street; 3.Introduce a right-turn ban from vehicles travelling from New Road into Silverless Street; 4.Provide loading bays with waiting restrictions between 8amand 5pm on weekdays, which will otherwise be available as parking areas. 5.Implement a raised table to facilitate pedestrians crossing. It seems that the proposals will prevent HGVs from travelling up and down Kingsbury Street, but I hope PROPOSAL 2 will not cause difficulties for the Showman who have been travelling this route, since the 1960s,to get from the Common to the High Street for our twice annual Mop Fairs. PROPOSAL 3, I believe, is a good idea and will prevent a great many near misses that I have seen over the years. PROPOSAL 1, seems to suggest that traffic will only be one way between Silverless Street and the High Street.As all of these changes seem to have come about following a request from the residents of Kingsbury Street that traffic be one-way between The Common and the High Street, do these changes actually please anyone? WHAT DO YOU THINK?
1.To make Kingsbury Street one way, between the High Street & Silverless Street, with traffic flowing uphill; 2.Implement a 7.5 tonne weight limit on Kingsbury Street between the junctions of the High Street and The Common and on Silverless Street; 3.Introduce a right-turn ban from vehicles travelling from New Road into Silverless Street; 4.Provide loading bays with waiting restrictions between 8amand 5pm on weekdays, which will otherwise be available as parking areas. 5.Implement a raised table to facilitate pedestrians crossing. No. 1 should be one way all the way up to the Frees Avenue corner
No. 2 not a problem all the fair has to do is go down herd street and up New Road...or as it is closed I would think the limit may not apply
Not sure about 3 as New road is nowhere near Silverless street I don't see how you can ban a right turn into it, if it was a right turn ban from new road/market place/high street in into Kingsbury street that would be OK
No 4
loading bays? does this mean that the loading bays will replace some parking bays on the sides of the High Street.....if so then the waiting limit on parking in the High Street should be put down to one hour or even 1/2 an hour after all long term parking is available in all the other parks........and while on the subject...SUNDAY the whole High street is taken up by workers and an odd few advertising vans so the people that matter (yes customers) can't park.
raised table does nothing as no one knows who has right of way ...well I tell a lie they do do somthing, they make large holes in underneath of low vehicles and caravans will ground on them ...but as long as the council is willing to take resposiblity for that then no problem.....most of the accidents I have seen in the high street have involved pedestrians walking behind cars or trucks that are reversing in a parking space.....put herringbone parking down both sides and cut out the middle might be worth a try
just my tuppence worth
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I have to admit (and accept I may be in a minority of 1) that I preferred the recent temporary arrangements of using New Street / Herd Street & Kingsbury Street as a large 1 way system. It seemed to work (or was I just lucky).
Ah, I remember before the "Bulge" when traffic for Swindon off the High Street was directed up Kingsbury Street! About time it returned.
All sounds good to me. I like the idea of herring bone parking. Perhaps we could reverse into the bay then drive out to avoid reversing into traffic as happens now in the middle of High St. The odd warden on a sunday to book all the lazy gits who block up the bus stops would be a good idea. I've seen them on a sunday morn booking church-goers in George Lane. What about speed humps in George Lane and London Road? They both resemble a race track especially early in the day. One word of warning.... Dont let the pillock who proposed pelican crossing on The Green have anything to do with it!!
