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James Barber

James Barber

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Two cars crashed and are badly damaged. No personal injuries thank goodness. Apparently with the sun so bright and low hard for cars to judge when to pull out and car on Barry Road might have been going too fast.


Suggested speed humps might help BUT as a bus route full humps would be a problem.


Will ask officers for a site visit as this junction going to cause a death eventually.

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trentk69

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Although, I was just commenting to my fiancee yesterday that is has been a while since there has been a crash at that junction. We live right on the junction so hear the crashes and near misses all the time.


A couple of months ago this junction was averaging one crash a week - so yeah, something probably needs to be done.

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redjam

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I loathe this junction too and if there is anything the council can do to make it safer I'm happy to add my voice to the campaign! The combination of low sunlight blinding you if you're going up Underhill and extremely poor sightlines on Barry Road due to parked cars (agree with Rhinestone Cowboy's post that they are too close to the junction) means that I frequently have to take a deep breath and lurch across just hoping for the best. Not a great way to make a driving decision. I know traffic lights aren't always popular in residential areas but I'd have thought there'd be a case for them here?
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TonyQuinn

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Mr Barber. I've written on this forum about this before, and written to the council too. Barry Road has been a nightmare for many a year. I remember being woken up early one morning when a car bombing it down Barry hit a car trying to come out of Upland. One of the cars ended by the entrance to Barry's Off License. If it had been any other time of day, there would have been many casualties, that's for sure. Barry Road needs to be fixed and fast. And while we're on it, its nearly impossible to get out onto Lordship Lane from many sidestreets such as Goodrich. Blind spots are huge, what with all the vehicles, many of which are big white vans, parked write up to the corner and most drivers around treating both Lordship and Barry as Silverstone. Tony
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mothernature

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Speed humps on Barry Road have been used in the past at this junction.They did not result in any reductions in accidents.The humps were removed after it was found that increased viabrations from heavy traffic were causing structural damage to buildings on Barry Road.


I strongly suggest traffic lights.

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kford

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Parking restrictions around junctions is the best solution. Traffic lights just make people impatient, especially at night when there's no-one around. Speed cameras, as i've said before, just make people look at their speedos and not at the road.


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James Barber

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Shortly after this collision I met council officers. We examined all five collisions at this junction for the last three years.


On Wednesday officers presented recommendations of changing current single yellow lines to double yellow lines. It is hoped that with the existing kerb buildouts sight lines will be improved and collisions reduced.


Adding some yellow lines shouldn't take many weeks to employ contractor, etc.


Additionally, some consideration to 20mph speed limits is being made. Nothnig decided on this but being looked at.

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Penguin68

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Make Underhill rd a one way street from Barry rd might just be the answer.


1. Not if you live in Underhill Road it isn't


2. Where are you proposing re-routing the bus? And just how inconnvenient for everyone is that likely to be? It just moves the traffic problem to another junction with Barry - which doesn't achieve anything at all.

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