I have already made some comments about cycle provision along the entire route from Cottenham to Histon. This is sorely needed if we can all feel safe with cyclists and motorists sharing what space we have on the road. In particular our children need to feel safe and we others must feel confident in encouraging them to cycle. This will not happen unless there is a mandatory cycle lane all the way along the High Street.
Other matters of concern are the speed at which motorists travel. We recently had the unpleasant experience of a total loss of power to our house. The likely cause , we are told, was heavy traffic on the high street juddering the substructure and damaging the casing on electricity cables. The result was seepage of heavy rains into the broken casing causing total power failure and calling in emergency repair services. We cannot be the only High Street residents who notice the house shaking when a heavy vehicle thunders past. Reducing the speed limit to 20 mph would minimise damage significantly as well as making the street a safer pleasanter place to be.
We have a growing number of elderly residents, many of whom need to travel on electric scooters/buggies. To a person they may agree that getting about on the paths and crossing roads is a bit of an obstacle course. Reduced traffic speed would make their lives more congenial and mandatory cycle paths would obviate the need for some cyclists to be scared off the road onto the paths, to the detriment of pedestrians, young and old.
Unpalatable as they may be,pedestrian traffic lights at intervals along the High Street would not only allow safer passage across the road but help to slow the traffic down.
We live on the High Street and late last year we also suffered a power loss. The cause was also a broken cable in the pavementv/road outside of our house. Being an old house we don’t have any foundations and we suffer severe vibrations from the now more frequent and much larger lorries that often speed past us. Not only is damage to our house likely, but the very late and very early lorries (e.g. Malary) are causing a lot of family distress (we have two young children). I don’t think it too much to be allowed to sleep without the noise and vibrations of lorries waking us up! It was never this bad when me moved to our house.
I have already made some comments about cycle provision along the entire route from Cottenham to Histon. This is sorely needed if we can all feel safe with cyclists and motorists sharing what space we have on the road. In particular our children need to feel safe and we others must feel confident in encouraging them to cycle. This will not happen unless there is a mandatory cycle lane all the way along the High Street.
Other matters of concern are the speed at which motorists travel. We recently had the unpleasant experience of a total loss of power to our house. The likely cause , we are told, was heavy traffic on the high street juddering the substructure and damaging the casing on electricity cables. The result was seepage of heavy rains into the broken casing causing total power failure and calling in emergency repair services. We cannot be the only High Street residents who notice the house shaking when a heavy vehicle thunders past. Reducing the speed limit to 20 mph would minimise damage significantly as well as making the street a safer pleasanter place to be.
We have a growing number of elderly residents, many of whom need to travel on electric scooters/buggies. To a person they may agree that getting about on the paths and crossing roads is a bit of an obstacle course. Reduced traffic speed would make their lives more congenial and mandatory cycle paths would obviate the need for some cyclists to be scared off the road onto the paths, to the detriment of pedestrians, young and old.
Unpalatable as they may be,pedestrian traffic lights at intervals along the High Street would not only allow safer passage across the road but help to slow the traffic down.
We live on the High Street and late last year we also suffered a power loss. The cause was also a broken cable in the pavementv/road outside of our house. Being an old house we don’t have any foundations and we suffer severe vibrations from the now more frequent and much larger lorries that often speed past us. Not only is damage to our house likely, but the very late and very early lorries (e.g. Malary) are causing a lot of family distress (we have two young children). I don’t think it too much to be allowed to sleep without the noise and vibrations of lorries waking us up! It was never this bad when me moved to our house.