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| Faded/broken white stop line at junction |
Last night
local campaigners, CADRA (Caversham and District Residents Association) and Conservative
councillors all spoke against the council’s proposal to change priorities at
the Highmoor/Albert Road junction at RBC’s Traffic Management Sub Committee meeting
(see my last post for further background).
I am pleased to report that the locally unpopular proposal was not
agreed.
The
persuasive arguments against the proposal had Cllr Tony Page (committee chair) announcing
his view that a decision to change the priority should be deferred before he
had even asked the views of the committee members.
Campaigners' outstanding frustration was Cllr Page’s refusal to instruct officers to
repaint the white stop lines at the junction, despite requests from
locals, my colleagues Cllrs Ed Hopper, Claire McDonald and me to immediately improve
visibility of the signage at this tricky junction. As you can see from this photo, what is meant to be a thick white line beyond the STOP is faded and broken. Officers committed only to inspect it.
What the
committee did agree was that RBC officers would work with representatives from CADRA
and HARC (Highmoor Albert Residents Campaign) to bring back a proposal which
hopefully will gain local support in September.
You can watch the meeting proceedings of last night's meeting on RBC's webcasting. You can forward to the relevant sections which are 1a for questions followed by presentation of the petition and 7 for the public speaking, report and debate.
