HIGHWAY planners at Warrington Borough Council are planning to introduce new traffic calming speed humps on Capesthorne Road, at Orford.
For many years, the borough council says residents have expressed concerns about the existing traffic calming measures in Capesthorne Road.
Presently they consist of a series of ‘thumps’ and are not sufficient to reduce vehicular speeds adequately. This has been backed up by video footage showing unsafe traffic speeds across the measures which may result in loss of control injury collision occurrence.
It is now proposed to remove the existing traffic calming measures in the form of “thumps” and one pair of existing speed cushions and replace them with more substantial traffic calming features of varying type as identified in the schedule below.
Warrington Borough Council has given notice it intends, as part of its traffic calming proposals, to install traffic calming features, to regulate the speed of traffic under Section 90A to the Highways Act 1980, with the effects detailed in the Schedule to this notice. Deposited documents may be viewed on-line at https://www.warrington.gov.uk/permanent-traffic-regulation-orders or Contact Warrington, 1 Time Square, Warrington, WA1 2NT between 9am & 5pm, Monday to Friday.
All representations both in support or objecting to the proposals must be in writing either by post or delivered by hand to Legal Services, East Annexe, Town Hall, Sankey Street, Warrington, WA1 1UH or emailed to [email protected] by 22nd September 2022 and all objections must specify the grounds on which they are made. Please note that all representations received may be considered in public by the Council and that the substance of any representation together with the name and address of the person making it could become available for public inspection.
Schedule – Traffic Calming Features
Location Description
Capesthorne Road At a point approximately 23 metres north east of the exit from the roundabout at the junction with Poplars Avenue Round topped road hump – 75mm high x 5.1m wide x 3.7m breadth
Capesthorne Road At a point approximately 86 metres north east of the exit from the roundabout at the junction with Poplars Avenue Round topped road hump – 75mm high x 5.1m wide x 3.7m breadth
Capesthorne Road At a point approximately 150 metres north east of the exit from the roundabout at the junction with Poplars Avenue Round topped road hump – 75mm high x 5.1m wide x 3.7m breadth
Capesthorne Road At a point approximately 214 metres north east of the exit from the roundabout at the junction with Poplars Avenue Round topped road hump – 75mm high x 5.1m wide x 3.7m breadth
Capesthorne Road At a point approximately 271 metres north east of the exit from the roundabout at the junction with Poplars Avenue Round topped road hump – 75mm high x 5.1m wide x 3.7m breadth
Capesthorne Road At a point approximately 327 metres north east of the exit from the roundabout at the junction with Poplars Avenue Flat topped speed table with 2.5 metre long plateau – 75mm high x 6.7m wide x 1m long ramps
Capesthorne Road At a point approximately 370 metres north east of the exit from the roundabout at the junction with Poplars Avenue 2x Speed Cushions 3.15m long – 75mm high x 1.8m wide x 0.6m long ramps
