ePetition details
Introduce traffic calming measures to help stop speeding on North End Road
North End Road is a busy road used by heavy traffic including
lorries, buses, cars and cyclists. The road has schools, a nursery,
a church and shops, and a heavy pedestrian presence, particularly
small children using the road during the mornings and
afternoons.
The current speed limit is 20MPH, which ties in with the speed
limit in the borough of Camden, this ends just before the turning
for Hampstead Way. From there, the mostly downhill route is used by
many cars to speed down, flouting the speed limit; it appears that
some cars seem to be going faster even than 30MPH. The problem
isn’t just downhill but the other way too.
Statistics of road traffic incidents back up our concerns, showing
there are more incidents than would be expected for a road of this
nature. This is particularly worrying given that many small
children use this road.
It is extremely concerning that failure of Barnet council to act on this will result in a serious incident soon. We are petitioning the council to introduce measures to ensure motorists maintain a speed of 20MPH, ideally by installing speed cameras, or failing that, speed humps. Either way, a failure to act to protect the safety of residents and visitors would constitute an act of negligence by Barnet council.
This ePetition ran from 17/08/2020 to 17/10/2020 and has now finished.
6 people signed this ePetition.