ePetition - Traffic calming on Marmion Road
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Traffic calming on Marmion Road
With traffic increasing in recent years, Marmion Road has become a cut through. With 2 schools a nursery and a park we feel traffic calming measures should be bought to the road to match the local Poets Corner calming measures. There is also the additional 105 dwellings on school road with increased traffic that poses a concern.
This ePetition ran from 16/06/2021 to 20/09/2021 and has now finished.
173 people signed this ePetition.
Council response
In response to it, the collision history on Marmion Road for the
previous three years has been studied and this shows that there
have been no recorded injury causing collisions in either School
Road or Marmion Road in this period. However we of course note that
that doesn’t mean that roads feel safe and that speeding
doesn’t happen, nor that residents aren’t legitimately
concerned. On 14th September, officers also conducted a site visit
to monitor traffic during normal conditions. It was found that at
the School Road end several vehicles that were attempting to enter
Marmion Road from School Road had to give way to traffic exiting
Marmion Road because of the narrowness of the road caused by parked
cars. It was further observed that traffic then driving through
Marmion Road had to give way to traffic approaching from the
opposite direction at any point where there was a gap in the
parking to allow vehicles to proceed past them. This parking was in
effect traffic calming and observations suggested that because of
this vehicle speeds remained low from when vehicles first entered
the road.
However I note that you of course want to see more done.
Unfortunately we have a great many request for traffic calming
schemes and within our budget and what we have to do, we are
looking at ways to manage this, and this can also mean prioritising
areas where collisions have sadly been recorded. This is
frustrating for all of us. I am pleased to update that there are a
number of schemes planned to take place in the vicinity that should
help to further reduce traffic volumes and speeds in this area.
This includes the upcoming school streets scheme for School Road.
If taken forward, this scheme is likely to consider a combination
of signage and traffic calming to improve safety on the school
approach. We are also progressing plans to implement road safety
improvements along Portland Road as part of our S106 programme.
These works are planned to take place this year and will include
the implementation of a raised entry treatment at the junction of
School Road and Portland Road. In combination, we believe these
schemes will positively impact on the speed and volume of traffic
in this area and will therefore address some of the concerns raised
within this petition.
Considering the upcoming schemes in this area and the casualty
record at this location it is not considered appropriate to take
any further action at the current time. However, we would welcome
feedback from the residents in Marmion Road once these schemes have
been implemented to see whether there has been noticeable changes
in the volume and speed of vehicles as a result of these changes.
Once they are in place, please share your views via
transport.projects@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Thank you so much for raising this important issue and we will
continue to work to address concerns around traffic.