Anger over Eccleshill roundabout (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

If the crossing only needed for school opening and closing times why on earth was it planned to operate all the time and everyday in the first place Mr. Reid?

Was def needed at schooltimes. But otherwise the new lights cause more unnecessary congestion and gives the calm relaxed drivers of bradford something else to struggle through and gesticulate at one another!
Make it pedestrian controlled and I'll be happy!

Pedestrian controlled is definitely the answer, that way elderly people wishing to visit the co-op can do so in safety as well as schoolchildren.

Now that's sorted any chance of getting the parking restrictions resolved around Thornbridge Mews, any deaths due to emergency vehicles not being able to access the old people's complex will be firmly at the hands of the council after knowing of this problem for over 12 months and doing nothing whatsoever about it.

A crossing was a good idea but should have just been a push button pedestrian crossing. This would have been fine, great for the school , coop , drivers.
the current set up is rediculous , sat in traffic up to leeds road at 't' time,
nearly get wiped out sat in a traffic jam on a round about coming the other way.
People failing to notice there is even a roundabout when coming up harrogate road and just chancing the junction, add a bus stop ON A ROUNDABOUT! who thought of all this!

i'd heard the signals & crossing were put on the wrong side of the roundabout - they read the drawings wrong!

JessWilson wrote:
i'd heard the signals & crossing were put on the wrong side of the roundabout - they read the drawings wrong!

:-)

If Councillor Reid offered his support to the original proposal why didn't he carry out his own survey before the crossing was built to ensure his support was justified? It seem ridiculous to subsequently question a scheme that he has asked to be implemented.

One of his possible remedies is to relocate the crossing further up the road (according to his recent newsletter). This would come at a further cost and cause further disruption. I ask the question, why wasn't the proper research and planning done before the crossing was built, and before his subsequent support for what has proved to be either the wrong scheme or in the wrong place.

It would also appear Mr Reid is repeating his lack of thorough research with regard to the Victoria Road parking restrictions proposals. He has supported the proposals but has failed to take into account the views and evidence supplied by of some of the residents who actually live there. My neighbours and I have invited him in writing (with all the other councillors in the area) to view CCTV footage of the road where the proposals are to be implemented. This will show once and for all the actual traffic situation on the road 24/7 to all parties involved. This would mean the opinion of certain people who only pass the road during their travels, would not receive their current unfair bias. The council meeting about the matter were told incorrectly that for 18 hours a day the road is packed with traffic which is causing massive disruption and delays to road users. This is just not true.

I therefore ask the further question why has he, certain other councillors, and the council officers failed to inspect all the available evidence before drawing up and trying to implement yet another in our opinion seriously flawed scheme?

These proposals will affect our houses extensively as we have lived here over 40 years and have no off road parking available to us. Nevertheless the council officers and Councillor Reid have failed to view our evidence, and appear hell bent on pushing through the proposals which in our opinion are unfair and unjustified.

How many more schemes will need to be implemented which then need subsequent changes with financial implications because adequate research wasn't carried out to begin with.

We, the residents feel ignored, and that is just not acceptable.