We understand that plans to "traffic calm" Erw Goch & Lôn Spiriol Uchaf are on ice. This followed a consultation in June as part of an initiative to encourage more cyclists and walkers from the area. The 13 calming features, all to be "speed cushions", received a mixed reaction.
There's no denying that there's a problem along Erw Goch. Extending the residential area of Rhuthun/Ruthin in the 1970s & 1980s by building Maes Cantaba and Bro Deg estates has resulted in significant traffic volumes along the Erw Goch distributor road. This makes life unpleasant for residents.
Calming would have cut speeds. It would also have increased traffic noise—drifers slowing, changing gear, accelerating—across the proposed 13 calming sites.
There was a concern that the calming measures would push traffic along Maes y Llan Road and Red Rocks. True, it might, even though Red Rocks and Llanrhydd Street are narrow and substandard—and Erw Goch is wide and sweeping—but why not calm all these? There may even be a case at the Anchor end, where children have access to their school, although this at the Anchor end to a degree is self-regulating at school times because of the numbers of parked vehicles and the road width.
Calming would have cut speeds. It would also have increased traffic noise—drifers slowing, changing gear, accelerating—across the proposed 13 calming sites.
There was a concern that the calming measures would push traffic along Maes y Llan Road and Red Rocks. True, it might, even though Red Rocks and Llanrhydd Street are narrow and substandard—and Erw Goch is wide and sweeping—but why not calm all these? There may even be a case at the Anchor end, where children have access to their school, although this at the Anchor end to a degree is self-regulating at school times because of the numbers of parked vehicles and the road width.
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