Safer Roads - Wedgwood Road

Continuing on our Safer Roads campaign, we are pleased to confirm that the signs we had requested are now being put up to make our residential roads safer for everyone.

New road sign on Wedgewood Road

We requested some of our roads had HGV restrictions to ensure the safety of children walking to school, cyclists and all other pedestrians.

Our residential roads are not capable of sustaining the level of heavy vehicles that are currently using them and this will hopefully also help to ensure the road surfaces we do manage to get repaired and replaced last longer.

Even More Busses through Twerton

Following my post in July concerning the state of the roads across the Twerton area, I am extremely concerned to see we now have an additional bus service running!

We now have a number 17 service being run by Wessex Connect that comes up Watery Lane, Poolemead Road, Wedgewood Road, Kelston View, North Way and then on around areas of Southdown before going back through town and up to the University of Bath.  This bus service is running from 6.45am with the last bus scheduled to come through Twerton at approx 3.15am

This now means that the above roads have almost 200 large busses EVERY DAY running on them. These are residential roads most of which are in urgent need of radical replacement as they were deemed not to be in a fit state to take the original level of bus usage, let alone the additional quantity now being run.

There is an infant school on one of the roads and large numbers of children playing near them, putting safe routes to school in danger and also increasing the risk of children not only being injured by the increased traffic, but their health will also be affected by the increased pollution being produced across this area.

I have written to the Council this morning and requested that immediate action is taken to remedy this situation.

Parking Restrictions Poolemead Road

Last week we raised the issue that the order to remove double yellow lines from the road opposite to the island at Wedgewood Road had been approved.

We can now confirm that these yellow lines have now been removed allowing for off road parking as originally intended.

We have already heard from a number of residents we are pleased that we have been able to resolve this difficult problem.

Wedgewood Road Bus Shelter

The Bus Shelter at Wedgewood Road is going to be replaced with a new shelter and seat in the spring of 2015

In the mean time we have arranged for the light fitting that is damaged to be repaired, we would hope that this would be done quickly.

Bus Stops Kelston View

We have been having a few issues with bus stops on Kelston View in the past few moths and just when we think that we have got it sorted another problem occurs.

The first issue was with a bus stop being put in outside of Wedgewood road flats that was taking away valuable parking spaces.

We are pleased that this matter has now been sorted and the bus stop is being altered to reinstate the parking spaces.

What we could not believe is that just when this matter was resolved that the council started to put in a bus build out by 38 Kelston View that we and residents had already objected to as the bus stop is never used, again removing valuable parking spaces. This work has now been stopped until we are happy with the situation and can resolve the issue of further parking spaces being lost.

Kelston View

We have asked for the Junction of Wedgewood Road and Kelston View to be resurfaced as soon possible.

The picture shows the poor condition of the road surface some of this caused by the excessive poor weather that we have been having.

As this is a major bus route we hope that this will be quickly resolved.

Rubbish bags out late

I have asked the council to follow up on rubbish bags that were put out after collections on Poolemead Road today.

The bags were put outside of the Centurion and also by 53 Wedgewood Road.

I have asked that the bags are removed and an attempt made to see who put them out.

By Councillor Tim Ball

Wedgewood Road Parking

I have asked for the councils parking enforcement officers to take action on the parking on the Corners of Wedgewood Road & Eleanor Close.

It has been brought to my attention that on many occasions the corners of these roads are full of parked cars often on the double yellow lines.

I hope that this matter can be sorted out as soon as possible.