Issue - meetings

This report advises Members of the many locations where concerns about traffic speeds have been raised, and provides an update on progress towards assessing these against the agreed prioritisation framework.  Based on this assessment process, a number of priority sites are identified and discussed, leading to the development of proposals for possible future speed management actions.  The report also gives an update on the use of Vehicle Activated Signs (VAS) as a speed management tool around the City.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to note the outcome of the speeding assessments carried out by Officers, and give in principle support to an appropriate funding allocation being made within the 2008/09 Transport Capital Programme for speed management proposals to enable the proposals set out in Annex B to be progressed.

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

RESOLVED :That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON :                 To enable funding to be allocated appropriately.

Members considered a report which advised them of the many locations where concerns about traffic speeds have been raised, and provides an update on progress towards assessing these against the agreed prioritisation framework. Based on this assessment process, a number of priority sites were identified and discussed, leading to the development of proposals for possible future speed management actions.

The report also gave an update on the use of Vehicle Activated Signs (VAS) as a speed management tool around the City.

Members discussed areas within the city where speeding is an issue, the use of VAS, driver behaviour and the importance of driver education and a change in attitude to speeding, and the close work with the police on this issue.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to note the outcome of the speeding assessments carried out by Officers, and give in principle support to an appropriate funding allocation being made within the 2008/09 Transport Capital Programme for speed management proposals to enable the proposals set out in Annex B to be progressed ¹.

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

RESOLVED :That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON :                 To enable funding to be allocated appropriately.