Tag: Pedestrian Safety
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Plans for Speed Bumps
These are the original plans for the speed bumps at
Fisherton Primary and Castle Road.
The plan above clearly set out a length of the raised section of the speed table as 2420mm with a ramp length of 750mm and the height of the raised section as 60mm.
It’s immediately obvious that what has been installed bears no relation to what has been promised.
The above is a generic plan, not necessarily what will be installed.
The plan below is the final plan issued by the Ayrshire Road Alliance.
As can be seen above, the plans indicate that Castle Road will be a 20 mph zone, with a 40 mph zone to the bottom of the hill, and a 20 mph zone from there to the end of the houses at the south end of Castle Road.
Chicanes are in the plans for both north and south access to Dunure.
New Pedestrian signs are also proposed either side of Kennedy Drive.
What is still to be clarified is the direction of right-of-way for the chicanes. It would make sense for traffic heading out of the village to have precedence on both the north and the south sides. Then vehicles heading up the hill have right of way, and local residents won’t have a regular series of hill starts.
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Speed Bumps
from Angus Craig on Facebook
Traffic calming
We have raised the issue of the speed bump outside the school as it appears not to have been constructed as per the plans. Secondly, the most southerly island created on Castle Road is clearly going to block access to the vacant plot, we have asked for it to be moved.
Reply from Ayrshire Roads Alliance is as follows.
The taper length on the raised table has been identified and the contractor (McGivney) told to rectify as per the drawings.
At the moment, they have been sited there to slow vehicles before they get to the existing housing developments. However, these are placed directly on the road resting on their own self weight to allow for their movability and thus can be relocated if need be.