Issue - meetings
Speeding in the Temple Road Area
Meeting: 27/07/2010 - Highways Committee (Item 7)
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This report informs members of a petition received from residents of the Temple Road area regarding concerns about speeding and rat running within the area. Residents have previously been informed that the area has been prioritised for funding for traffic calming measures and that funding has been secured for the implementation of measures within the 2010/11 and 2011/12 financial years. However the petition illustrates that residents believe that action needs to take place earlier.
The report informs members of the processes necessary to implement a scheme, the constraints around the availability of funding for the scheme and explains why it is not practicable to bring the scheme forward. In the petition there are suggestions about particular measures that should be implemented to address local concerns. The report responds to those suggestions.
Decision:
That Committee the contents of the petition and the issues raised be noted.
That Committee Officers be instructed to progress the scheme as quickly as practicable within the funding and procedural constraints set on the project.
Minutes:
This report informed members of a petition received from residents of the Temple Road area regarding concerns about speeding and rat running within the area. Tim Jackson informed the Committee that although residents had previously been informed that the area had been prioritised for funding for traffic calming measures and that funding had been secured for the implementation of measures within the 2010/11 and 2011/12 financial years, they submitted a petition that sought action to be taken earlier.
Councillor Hashmi speaking to the petition stated that Temple Road was a major corridor route to Cricklewood and Willesden Green Libraries, Rainbow and Roundwood Parks, to mention a few. Despite that speeding traffic had made Temple Road a hazard for pedestrian and vehicular safety. Councillor Hashmi urged the Committee to bring forward the scheme in the interest of public safety.
Tim Jackson outlined the processes necessary to implement the scheme, the constraints around the availability of funding for the scheme and explained why it was not practicable to bring the scheme forward. He continued that officers appreciated the concerns shared by residents of the Temple Road area about the traffic conditions and in recognition, had prioritised the area for funding through the TfL LIP process. He continued that funding had been secured to progress the scheme over the 2010/11 and 2011/12 financial years and that constraints over funding and processes meant that it would not be practicable to bring forward the implementation of the scheme into 2010/11. He added that officers would ensure that the scheme was progressed as quickly as practicable within the financial and process constraints.
RESOLVED
(I) that the contents of the petition and the issues raised be noted;
(ii) that officers be instructed to progress the scheme as quickly as practicable within the funding and procedural constraints set on the project.