We cannot allow any further deaths here.
If there were any knock on effects in terms of congestion, (other issues aside) it would probably improve safety.
A pedestrian hit at under 20mph has a 5% chance of being killed.
A pedestrian hit at 30mph or below has a 45% chance of being killed.
People are going to continue walking across from Eastville to Tesco because it is a desire line. The tunnels are considered by many to be more dangerous in terms of muggings, so people choose what they consider safest and most direct. And that is unfortunately across the slip road. We need to make sure that is safe.
This is just one part of an epidemic of car-related damage being suffered by Bristolians, 500 of us are killed or permanently crippled by cars every year. We have had more than our fair share in Easton lately. Yet this is consistent with the statistics- for every one child killed or injured on Clifton streets, roughly 25 Easton children are.....
And the entire Evening Post website today is full of CAR-nage:
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/
See today's article in the Evening Post about junction 2: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Safe-crossing-killer-Bristol-junction/article-512710-detail/article.html
If you want to support the campaign, you can write an e-mail to MP Kerry McCarthy at mccarthyk@... asking that funding be made available to carry out the improvements outlined here, and asking her to direct the Highways Agency to undertake the above emergency safety improvements to the junction, and for 20MPH ZONES TO BE INTRODUCED ON ALL RESIDENTIAL ROADS IN BRISTOL. Also please e-mail mark.bradshaw@... and your councillor.
Thanks
Josh
From: Royce Creasey <royce@...>
To: easton_bristol@...
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 11:14:17 AM
Subject: Re: [easton_bristol] Junction 2 M32 "blood alley"
Does the campaign propose any way of encouraging non-motor vehicle
traffic to cross the M32 J2 complex that doesn't simply involve
obstructing other traffic on that junction?
Isn't the route past the Job Centre and Ikea (etc.) still open? I
always used to walk that way across the M32. And there's a full
underpass complex on J.2 - unless that's closed too?
It's true that that off-ramp is short and very badly marked, there's
often a problem with traffic backing up onto the M32. The alternative
off-ramp at St. Pauls leads traffic into more congested streets in
Easton (Old Ashley Rd.) than Stapleton Road.
I'd have to argue that another signal crossing at that point, or closure
of that off-ramp, would increase congestion significantly in other parts
of Easton where more pedestrians would be closer to the motor vehicles.
But I'm only addressing the safety/efficiency issue.
Royce
Joshua Hart wrote:
> Dear Easton/ Eastville resident,
>
> In the last year, as you may be aware, three elderly pedestrians have
> been killed by motor vehicles while walking across the southbound slip
> road and entrance to Stapleton Rd. at Junction 2 of the M32 in
> Eastville. Local residents are calling for emergency safety
> improvements to prevent further loss of life, and to facilitate safe
> pedestrian/ cycle connections between the Muller Rd. Tesco and
> residential neighbourhoods to the east.
>
> This is of great concern to many of us who live in the area and are
> denied safe access to the Muller Rd. Tesco from neighbourhoods in
> Easton and Eastville. We're distressed that the City Council has
> failed to respond to these preventable tragedies with adequate
> urgency, having only put up signs warning pedestrians of the danger,
> instead of prioritising the implementation of a safe, signalised level
> crossing, and investigation of the closure of the Stapleton Rd. offramp.
>
> More info about this and other Bristol transport debacles at:
> http://onthelevelbl og.wordpress. com/2008/ 11/14/top- ten-bristol- transport- debacles/
>
> If you would like to help with this campaign, please contact Josh at
> velorution@yahoo. com In particular let me know if you can join us at
> the site THIS Saturday 29th Nov. at NOON for a photo shoot by the
> Evening Post.
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
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