King Charles' Road

Improvements Have Made Road A Deathtrap (from Surrey Comet)

A resident who lives near King Charles' Road has raised the issue of traffic calming. As regular readers of this blog will recall this issue has been bubbling away for some time now.

Basically the Councillors agreed to a traffic calming scheme that when installed was clearly a death trap. The scheme should never have been installed and officers have had some serious questions to answer about why they allowed such a scheme to be proposed.

Contrary to the letter the scheme has been back to the Councillors. In fact a residents group was formed that worked with officers to redesign the scheme. That redesign went out to consultation and the Councillors have agreed to the modifications.

The main element of the modifications is to remove the "island" Give Way's and replace them with speed tables across the entire junction - similar to that used in other parts of Berrylands. A plan of the new Avenue South junction can be seen here.

We will see whether this yields a better result.