Additional traffic calming for Ermin Street Baydon

 

The chicanes installed last year on Ermin Street near the playground have proved to be successful, reducing what was the highest speeds in the village, from an 85th percentile* of 44.3mph to the lower figure of 39.8mph. However, these chicanes will be even more effective in conjunction with additional traffic calming measures.

 

Baydon Parish Council has been planning for the next phase of traffic calming and considering further obstacles for Ermin Street, with road safety outside the school being the highest priority.

 

After consultation with Wiltshire Highways, a draft proposal has been designed, which will slow traffic approaching the primary school from both directions.  A single obstacle near the Ermin Close entrance is proposed, which means that westbound traffic would need to give way. Another single obstacle, near the flashing 30mph sign at the western end of Ermin Street, would mean that eastbound cars must give way. These obstacles would be similar to those at Wanborough and Shrivenham.

 

Baydon Parish Council intends to make a contribution of £6,000 towards the £18,000 cost. We have already secured £3,000 from CATG** and have applied for central government funding, for the remainder.

 

Our existing chicanes cost £31,000, of which Baydon Parish Council contributed £3,000, with the remainder being paid for by a very generous donation of £3,000 from a local resident, £3,000 from CATG and £22,000 from central government funding.*** Therefore, of the £49,000 costs of the traffic calming project as a whole, Baydon Parish Council will have contributed £9,000.

 

Further information can be found on www.baydon.org, on the Parish Council notice board outside the shop and of course, Parish Council meetings.

 

Baydon Parish Council

 

 

* A Metrocount measures the number of passing cars and the speed of the free flowing traffic. (The 85th percentile is the speed at which 85% of cars were travelling at, or under.)

 

**Marlborough Community Area Transport Group, which a Baydon Parish Cllr attends

 

***The cost of the chicanes near the playground were higher because there was no existing power supply for the lighting

 

 

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