Further to the points residents have made about the proposed changes to the junction at Golborne Road and Bolton Road I print below the reply I have received from Stuart Dawber the traffic engineer heading this project.
This scheme is an accident reduction scheme, not a congestion scheme and therefore has be designed to reduce road collisions. The proposed improvements are minor and would not add to congestion in any way. This is one of many schemes that is undertaken annually in the borough undertaken at low cost. The only way to assist cars turning out of Golborne Road is to introduce traffic signals at this junction. Unfortunately signals would be very expensive and the scheme would not meet its financial objectives.
2. As mentioned in the previous point, the proposals will not effect congestion. The final design will still allow traffic to queue in two lanes as it does presently during busy periods. We are aware that this is a busy junction and our proposals we not alter how it presently operates. As this is an accident reduction scheme, we studied when the injury accidents occurred. Most of the accidents happened outside of rush hours therefore it was not necessary to visit the site when there were standing traffic. We needed to understand what was happening when traffic conditions were light. The collisions that may happen in busy periods are likely to be low speed that do not cause injury. Changing the radius of the kerb will reduce the speed and angle you can exit Golborne Road.
Additional point on the BLOG…..
3. The current layout from a traffic point of view is adequate but from a collision reduction point of view it needs slight amendments. The proposed trees will be positioned not to obscure visibility exiting Golborne Road but will reduce visibility from a distance so the driver will be focused on the traffic ahead and not traffic travelling on Bolton Road.
3 comments:
Trees will block the veiw of traffic from Abrahm who will not see traffic in Golborne road. The whole scheme is a compleat waste of money and the money should be spent finding a way of getting traffic flowing as far as accidents are concerned the junction of Cleveland Drive and Bolton Road is a far more dangerous junction yet nothing is being done to make this safer and far more bumps happen on this junction than the one at Golborne road!!!!!!!
During his survey did Stuart Dawber drive down Golborne Rd at 30mph and when he came to the junction did he drive straight out on to Bolton Rd, without stopping?
If he did would you do the same? Nobody else does either except stupid,careless drivers who cause accidents anywhere and everywhere in the world anyway, and the fact that the main rd. is on a hill and runs sharply downhill makes it even mpre dangerous for those who don`t stop. so reducing the left hand radius would cause more problems that it supposedly does now. and EVERYBODY STOPS. Secondly if you also put an island in the centre what would happen if a 38 ton artic came to turn RIGHT out of Golborne Rd. would he not flatten the island and any poor soul stood on it or cause utter mayhem in trying to take a much sharper turn .Or don`t you think 38tonners don`t actually come down Golborne Rd.? As I said leave it as it is....Ray Davies.( I`ve been `surveying` that junction for 60 years by the way)
Nigel, your lack of an answer regarding my question about 38tonners suggests to my that you don`t have an answer,or you don`t believe 38 tonners turn right out of Golborne rd.?
so tell them to go ahead with their idiotic scheme and when someone gets killed on that little island you can always say you told them it would happen on your blog...Ray Davies
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