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Post by bigfella on Nov 5, 2009 15:04:17 GMT
First post but something I need to get off my chest! All the signs around the city saying we are a cycling demonstration town. Can we not paint over them with the word CITY!!!!  Ah that's better  |
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Post by gbrandt on Feb 3, 2010 15:24:17 GMT
This is in regard to access to the Eureka cafe, travelling along the Greenway from Chester, then Saughall and Woodbank Lane, to emerge on the A540:-
The Hyder report on the A540 divides the road into sections. Section 16, “300m north west to 300m south east of Shotwick Lane” covers the length from Woodbank Lane to Chapel Lane, it has an “All Injury Annual Accident Rate” of 88.5 incidents “per 100million vehicle kilometres”, which exceeds the Investigation Threshold of 35 by a huge margin (sorry to get technical, but theses figures are at the heart of the Report, where Injuries exceed the Threshold, action is supposed to be taken). This is the length where Mary & Dennis Ellison, members of Birkenhead North End CC, residents of St Helens, came on the morning of 28th October 2009 to meet friends for a quiet cycle ride in Cheshire or North Wales. It is a length that was examined by Cheshire CC some time ago, and no action was taken regarding a cycle path. Even now, faced with the bare facts from a report that they commissioned, CW&C still dither. The Cycle Town project aims to provide Safe Routes to places like the Zoo & the Eureka cafe, funds are said to be aimed at the City Centre this year. Can we be told when funds will be aimed at an issue that is currently costing the NHS several hundreds of thousands of pounds to pick up the broken lives of Mary & Dennis, due to the neglect of the engineering and political fraternity who have ignored this part of the A540 for far too long.
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