Everyone in Brigg knows about the traffic congestion experienced on Grammar School Road - particularly when pupils are going to, and leaving, the schools down there. From time to time there's total gridlock.
Brigg Town Council is now conducting a survey of all residents who live in the Grammar School Road/Springbank area. Leaflets will be delivered to every household this week.
If you don't live in this area of the town but are still affected by the congestion because you need to travel along this route, e.mail the Town Council and the Town Clerk will send you a survey form to complete and return - enquiries@briggmarkettown.co.uk
The Town Council is pulling together "hard evidence" of the problems being experienced.
This information can then be passed on to North Lincolnshire Council, and also, we'd suggest, to Andrew Percy, the Brigg and Goole MP.
Brigg Town Council has asked Brigg Blog to help publicise this worthy consultation exercise and has also posted details on its own Facebook page, where some Brigg folk have already voiced their feelings about the congestion.
Neil Barker suggests: "Grammar School Road needs linking to the main road so that all the traffic can get out of it without going back through Brigg. It will never be sorted until Grammar School Road is linked to Wrawby Road."
Pete Boston adds: "I travel along this road four times a day, five days a week and it's a nightmare. Every day there's a vehicle pulls out in front of me or someone walks out in front."
Brigg Town Council says it is aware of the problems faced every day by drivers who need to travel along Grammar School Road. So its members are undertaking the traffic survey Monday-Friday this week (16-20th Sept).
They would welcome the public's help in counting the number of vehicles using this route. Volunteers are asked to email enquiries@briggmarkettown.co.uk
Brigg Blog will just end by making it clear for the benefit of those who are unsure about which authority does what in local government. North Lincolnshire Council is responsible for roads, road safety and planning issues; Brigg Town Council can make its views known to the unitary authority on matters of local concern but does not have statutory powers to take action to resolve difficulties of this nature.
Counting traffic flows along GSR is really not a definite method to show congestion along the road.
ReplyDeleteRaw figures, such as the number of vehicles travelling north, or south along the road at a given time can offer misleading results.
For example, for a given type of road, one could expect that, for instance, the traffic flow to be 'x' with the maximum capacity for the road to be '2x'.
However, along GSR there are series of parked cars, effectively making the road into a single-track road. Consequently, the contra-traffic flow will invariably adversely affect vehicle flow-numbers passed a given counting point.
In turn, to present such raw figures to any town planner could infer that the traffic flow volume in GSR is low and that the road itself has not yet achieved its maximum load volume.
By contrast, I suggest, that the degree of congestion along GSR is inversely related to traffic flow numbers - ie relatively high flow = less congestion - low flow = high congestion.
The debate about congestion along GSR is not about the number of vehicles using the road at any specific time, but should include a matrix of the number of vehicles waiting, queueing, delayed, the degree of annoyance to those living nearby, driver frustrations; the number of escape routes to avoid the congestion. as well as the potential of the one-track contra system being becoming blocked - thus, creating a stagnant bottleneck affecting householders and possibly emergency vehicles effectively entering, or leaving zones along the route of GSR.