Road Safety & Public Transport
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Road Safety; Speeding & careless driving - Paths & cycle tracks - On- Road parking - Winter Gritting of Roads
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Road Safety
SPEEDING AND CARELESS DRIVING;
Excessively high speeds along the Bawtry Road and throughout the Springs,
including Bank End Road, are commonplace. While better warning signs have been
erected in recent years they appear to have no effect. Within the village, the
junction of Top Street/Station Road/Middle Street is a point of great concern.
The Parish council has requested that a fixed cable survey is established on the
approaches to the village along Station Road. The cable should be in place
during the early spring and will record speeds and the volume of traffic.
Traffic builds speed along this stretch of road from Austerfield into Newington.
Residents complain of very high speeds as vehicles pass through the village.
Residents of Newington are demanding a 30mph speed limit.
Aims; To improve the current road markings, have clear definition at
junctions and at the entrances to the village, perhaps using different road
surface colours. 30mph speed limit through Newington Village.
PATHS AND CYCLE TRACKS;
Tunnel Tech continues to expand as do the two quarries on the Bawtry Road.
Hanson Quarries have plans for an extension to their current site workings.
The old 'Crop Drying' site has been very successful in attracting commerce and
has substantially developed. There is a steady increase in heavy vehicles for
all of these reasons. While these companies have brought employment to the
parish the increase in traffic progressively inhibits safe cycling and walking
along Bawtry Road and also Station Road.
An articulated lorry uses the full width of the Bawtry Road as it turns out of
Tunnel Tech. Pedestrians are forced to scramble onto verges thick with long
grass. Mothers with push chairs find this impossible to do when the ground is wet and
muddy.
Lorries
have difficulty in passing each other along the narrow Bawtry Road this leads to
them going too close to the road edge and they sometimes end up in the ditches as shown. The Bawtry road was closed yet again for a good hour on this
occasion while this lorry was recovered.
It
can be clearly seen in this photograph how the soft ground either side of the
road is being eroded away by lorry wheels going off the road and this is causing
the the road surface itself to crack and break away at the edges.
It
is imperative that the road is strengthened before a serious accident results.
Pedestrians also need the protection of a footpath.
Cyclist and Motorcyclist are always in danger of being trapped in the large ruts in the road edge following the erosion caused by the very heavy lorries.
Aim; A Pathway/Cycle Track along the full length of Bawtry Road extending from
the village to Newington to provide an area of safety. A restriction on the times and the daily movements of
lorries.
ON ROAD PARKING;
Most homes nowadays have at least two cars but many will have at least three,
four or even more! Owing to a massive increase in on street parking the narrow
roads of the village are becoming unreasonably congested. This problem is
leading to a danger to children playing and is a cause of friction between
neighbours. The more recent planning regulations require that at least two cars
must be able to park and turn around within the perimeters of a new property.
The regulations do not apply to existing properties even when they are extended.
However Bassetlaw continues to allow planning approval to home owners who wish
to capitalise on their gardens for housing development.
Aim; A more rigorous control on housing development within the village. The establishment of community parking areas and where essential some restrictions on parking.
The Bawtry Road and the village, following many
years of campaigning, is now included within the 'Winter Gritting Plan'.
However, we are still applying pressure for Misson Springs to also be included
in the winter plan.
Aim; Misson Springs to be included within the Winter Gritting Plan.
Many villages throughout North Nottinghamshire have suffered a loss of public services. However a few bus services to and from Misson remain with nearby Bawtry providing a hub to centres like Doncaster, Retford and Worksop. Retford is the nearest railway station with trains to London, Scotland and the N.E. but there is a greater choice from Doncaster. Doncaster is a major hub for many other parts of the country; Manchester, the Midlands, Wales and the S.W. but sometimes you need to change at Sheffield or elsewhere.
The lack of bus services is very restricting for young people attending schools and colleges within Nottinghamshire and at Doncaster College. Nottinghamshire County Council provide subsidies to most village bus routes throughout the county but stubbornly refuse to recognise the needs of Misson. Misson is unique in that it is not possible to leave the village for other parts of the county without traveling through North Lincolnshire or South Yorkshire and that is where the problem lies. Nottinghamshire refuse to subsidise buses traveling through other counties. They also seem unable or unwilling to subsidise Misson students attending schools in Retford and Worksop yet alone travel to Doncaster College.
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