ePetition - Lewes Road Traffic Scheme Review
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Lewes Road Traffic Scheme Review
Since the initial monitoring report of November 2013 no further monitoring information or scheme impact data has been made available on the Councils dedicated page. The 2013 report stated that 6 monthly monitoring would take place and we would like the council to now review this information to fully assure themselves that the scheme is working as intended for the benefit of the City as outlined in the initial scheme proposal.
This ePetition ran from 29/05/2015 to 01/10/2015 and has now finished.
626 people signed this ePetition.
Council response
Response provided by the Chair of the Environment, Transport & Sustainability Committee on 13 October 2015:
“The city council's cross-party transport committee unanimously agreed plans on 2nd October 2012 to make transport improvements to the Lewes Road corridor. This followed an extensive public consultation exercise where the majority of those who responded indicated they were in favour of the proposals.
The scheme included measures to improve public transport services and safety for pedestrians and cyclists as well as the upgrade of traffic signals at key junctions to improve the efficiency of the route for car drivers.
Pre-traffic surveys were undertaken in October/November 2012 in order to establish the existing baseline condition. These surveys included manual traffic counts on the mode of transport, journey times for both buses and cars, automatic traffic counts on surrounding key routes as well as obtaining bus patronage data from the local bus company.
To ensure that post-monitoring is comparable, surveys must be
repeated at the same time of year so that seasonal variations do
not influence the outcome. As such, the monitoring was repeated in
October/November 2013 following the completion of the scheme and
the results were published on our website.
In October/November 2014, the construction work to improve the
safety of the Vogue Gyratory was taking place and therefore the
annual monitoring had to be delayed until January/February 2015
when the works were completed. This delay meant that the surveys
were subject to seasonal variation but this was deemed preferable
to the alternative of gathering data during major construction
works.
Further monitoring is programmed to take place in October/November 2015 after which a full report will be published summarising all the data collected to date. This will include accident analysis and will also identify any impacts on the surrounding area that may be identified as part of the latest data gathering exercise. For example, the November 2013 monitoring report identified an issue with increased queueing at the Coombe Road/Lewes Road junction. As a result, a left turn filter lane was introduced at the traffic lights and the traffic signals were adjusted. The latest queue length surveys for this junction have shown that this remedial action has been very successful and queue lengths have now fallen below the level recorded before the scheme was implemented. Should other issues be identified via the monitoring then the next report will identify suitable solutions to address them.
The report will be published on our website once it is complete
which is expected to be in December 2015”.