Issue - meetings

Following a number of requests for vehicle activated signs that indicate speeds to drivers the report sets out the national and local policy context.  It offers a number of options and seeks decisions with regard to undertaking a trial of a vehicle activated sign speed indicator device on the authority’s highway network. It sets out criteria for that trial and the potential next steps once the trial is complete.   

Resolved: 

(i)      That approval be given to undertake the trial for a minimum of three months, to allow consideration of speed indicator devices in future vehicle activated sign policy.

(ii)      That York Rd, Strensall and Stockton Lane, Heworth be used as trial sites

(iii)     That the types of sign to be used will show actual speed and “Thank You” up to and including the speed limit and will display the speed roundel and “Slow Down” for speeds over the speed limit.

(iv)    That a trial of two Speed Indicator Devices, one in the village of Strensall and the other on Stockton Lane in Heworth Without at the locations shown in Annexes A & B to the report, using sign type C be approved. Once the trial period is complete and the outcome reviewed the results will be reported back to a future Executive Member Decision Session.

Reason:    

To provide a structured trial of speed indicator devices to allow this type of equipment to be considered for inclusion as an option in the council’s future vehicle activated sign policy.

The Executive Member considered a report which set out the national and local policy context in relation to vehicle activated signs that indicated speeds to drivers which had been prepared in  response to a number of requests for vehicle activated signs. The report set out a number of options and sought agreement to undertake a trial of a vehicle activated sign speed indicator device on the authority’s highway network. It sets out criteria for that trial and the potential next steps once the trial was complete.  

The Executive Member was asked to consider 3 decisions as detailed in the report at paragraph 24 of the report in relation to whether to undertake the trail, the trial site location and which type of sign to be used.

He acknowledged the comments made under public participation by Councillor Waller, Ward Member for Westfield and by Lawrence Mattinson,  Strensall with Towthorpe Parish Councillor. He also noted the written representations received from Cllr Ayre, Ward Member for Heworth Without, welcoming the proposals to trial vehicle activated speed indicator devices in the city and particularly his ward, and from residents of Wetherby Road expressing their concerns regarding speeding on Wetherby Road.

Resolved: 

(i)      That approval be given to undertake the trial of two speed indicator devices for a minimum of three months, to allow consideration of speed indicator devices in future vehicle activated sign policy (Option A).

(ii)      That York Rd, Strensall and Stockton Lane, Heworth (Without) be used as trial sites at the locations shown in Annexes A & B to the report (Option C).

(iii)     That the types of sign to be used will show actual speed and “Thank You” up to and including the speed limit and will display the speed roundel and “Slow Down” for speeds over the speed limit (Option C).

(iv)    That once the trial period is complete, and the outcome reviewed, the results would be reported back to a future Executive Member Decision Session.

Reason:     To provide a structured trial of speed indicator devices to allow this type of equipment to be considered for inclusion as an option in the council’s future vehicle activated sign policy.