Paging Cllr Slack

[therealjr]

Would the councillor care to inform the forum if he intends meeting with the residents and business owners in his constituency to allow them to voice their concerns regarding the new traffic management system?
And if he does intend holding such a meeting could he further inform us a) will he be telling the residents what he does for a day job and b) telling them that he thinks its a good scheme as voiced 'in another place'?

(PS Slacker I appreciate you don't have a credible answer so I'm not expecting one, TBH I'm just taking the P155!!!)

[Fly]

TBH The light system is a bit, err, naff :-(

[Slacker]

The Hasland & St Leonard's Community Forum has been kept well informed both before the scheme (where it received unanimous support) and last week where the officer representing DCC came in for a lot of stick.

It is in need of some fine tuning, for instance the phasing between the Calow Lane lights and those at the end of The Green. There was also the problem of the lights turning to red if a car stopped to let another one out of the parking space as it appeared there was no more traffic coming; this I am told has now been rectified.

Some cars are also stopping for pedestrians as they turn into The Green, forgetting that it is no longer a zebra crossing.

It is not within my remit as a day job, I work in maintenance. The only times I have had any dealing with traffic schemes was in my old quantity surveying role though to the public I would just be seen as a highways officer.

[Fly]

One thing I have noticed, is the time pedestrians have to wait to cross the road where the old crossing used to be.
They get bored, and just set off walking. Regardless of where the traffic is coming from.

@Slack, I appreciate your not responsible for this mess !
Which it is :-(

[Slacker]

One thing I have noticed, is the time pedestrians have to wait to cross the road where the old crossing used to be.
They get bored, and just set off walking. Regardless of where the traffic is coming from.

@Slack, I appreciate your not responsible for this mess !
Which it is :-(

Although the green light is only on for about 5 seconds for pedestrians the traffic is actually held up in time for people to cross.

[Fly]

They stand there for ages, like sheep.
One makes a run for it and everybody follows.
This is irrelevant of Mr Green man or not.

One thing I have noticed, is the time pedestrians have to wait to cross the road

NOT, how long they have, to cross the road.

[Kent]

can i also add, that driving from the Green for the first time, you can quite easily
miss the fact there are any lights at all, until it is to late, because where the lights
are, they are not easily seen, because of the shops etc.... which nearly happened
to me.

[Pete]

I saw a photo of very disgruntled traders and residents in the DT yesterday - what's the skinny on this Slacker?

[Slacker]

Hopefully teething troubles that minor alterations can put right. Hopefully!

[therealjr]

Just been on the Borough's website.
Disappointed that under Cllr Slack's declared interests he doesn't list us as a lobbying group he belongs to!!! 

[therealjr]

A residents view of Grangewood:

It happened to Grangewood Estate. It was lovely when I moved in. Now we have got alcoholics who get aggresive, troubled families, a drug pusher, people fighting with machetes & druggies: Not bad for a quiet Sunday!


would Cllr Slack care to
a) defend his home estate and if not
b) tell us what the council are doing to rectify the problems?

[Slacker]

Where is this quote from?

[therealjr]

'Another Place'!!!!!!!!!

[Pete]

You should try living on our street - the coppers have their own parking bay... 

[Slacker]

Rother ward is an area of quite high deprivation, Birdholme School for instance has the third highest take up of school meals in the country.

Grangewood has a lot of flats and this is where most of the trouble occurs. A lot of them are single occupancy with tenants who stay for a short amount of time. One bad tenant can affect the whole block of six.

Police have carried out drug raids and they cooperate with the Housing Department to ensure that criminal are evicted and not rehoused in the borough. The reciprocal effect though, I would imagine, is that we would occasionally get troublemakers from other areas though there is an advantage that this arrangement splits gangs up.

I have not noticed a deterioration over the years but the comment posted by someone who lives in the flats may have a localised problem. It's never bothered me walking through the estate any time of day or night, not something that can be said about housing estates in some cities (certainly areas of Salford where I spent 3 years)