From: Rod King <rodk@...>
Subject: [cyclomania] One small step for mankind - one huge step for Warrington
To: "wcc Talk" <WCC-Talk@yahoogroups.com>, "GMCC-Talk" <GMCC-Talk@yahoogroups.com>, CTC-RTR@yahoogroups.com, living_streets@..., cyclomania@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 2 February, 2009, 9:20 PM

Hi

 

Well today Warrington Borough Council introduced its Experimental Traffic Order setting a 20 mph speed limit on 147 roads in the Borough.

 

It may not have been Phase One of a borough-wide 20 mph default, and both Warrington Cycle Campaign and 20’s Plenty For Us are highly critical of the nature of the pilots and how well they model the full range of roads in Warrington, but it is a huge commitment to lower speeds.

 

The three areas comprise the Town Centre, about 10 roads in Great Sankey and about 80 roads in the Orford area in the North East of the town.

 

The initiative has undoubtedly come about from 5 years of campaigning by Warrington Cycle Campaign and 20’s Plenty For Us.. It has involved numerous meetings, campaigns and petitions.

 

Warrington was one of the “new towns” of the 80’s and for years has suffered the blight of feeder roads designed for vehicle throughput rather than community amenity.

 

Surely if the “tide can be turned” in Warrington then it can be turned in town halls throughout the land.

 

As campaigners we know that we have a long way to go in order to turn this 147 streets into the 2,000 or so needed to cover  every community in Warrington. We are looking for the “pilots” to be abandoned in favour of permanent and phased implementation across every residential street.

 

There will be many more meetings, persuasions, press releases and e-mails, but we are confident that eventually Warrington will become a more civilised place through the borough-wide adoption of 20 mph.

 

Our best regards

 

Keep up the campaigning.

 

 

Rod King              20’s Plenty For Us

Chris Mayes       Warrington Cycle Campaign