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One statement had been received from Gail Jenkinson regarding a substantial number of road safety measures that have been raised by the residents of Greasby, Frankby & Irby.

When we've been campaigning around Greasby from Frankby and Irby, the biggest thing that comes up is road safety obviously depending on where the person lives it is different issues but nevertheless it's road safety. In 2019 we took a informal survey just along a few roads in Greasby including what we call the Way Road which is East Way, West Way, Broadway, Greenway and also the RAF estate we asked three simple questions which were: do you think that the speed limit around schools should be reduced to 20 miles an hour? Almost universally the answer was yes except for those people who thought it should be lower. Do you think the residential roads in Greasby should be reduced to 20 miles an hour? Broadly in favour about 60%. Do you think all roads in Greasby? And the answer for that was round about 25% in favour but bearing in mind we didn't talk to anybody who lived on Greasby Road, Arrow Road, Mill Lane just because of time because of the election and a pandemic got in the way of carrying on the survey. Nevertheless we have still found a number of issues relating to road safety because of course as with most of the Wirral when the houses were built for the residents to live in they did not anticipate so many cars or even cars could go so fast or cars that will be going backwards and forwards all day.

Indulge me a little whilst I go down memory lane, as a child we used to sit on one of the residential walls on Greasby Road when the new number plates came out and we would wait minutes before cars would come along never mind waiting for a car to come along with a new number plate. When these houses were built there was no anticipation of this amount of traffic and also places like Brookdale School had its 50th anniversary a few years ago I think that was built in 1962 and Greasby Juniors, Greasby Infants were around before then. The churches were also placed before then Our Lady of Pity has been there for a long time which is on a bend on Mill Lane so what we are

asking please is if road safety measures could be put in place. I've sent a letter to Councillor Grey itemising them all and I don't think it's useful for me to go through all of them here because it would just be dreadfully dull but nevertheless there are quite a few junction's we generally have a lot of speeding on residential roads notably round the Way roads the main roads like Irby Road subject to a lot of speeding, Hill Bark Road since the invention of SAT NAV a lot of heavy lorries are being directed down Hill Bark Road which is clearly unsuitable and we have farm traffic going up and down but inevitably farm traffic is very slow it is familiar with the road but large lorries going at the speed limit along Hill Bark Road are just dangerous for start they cover more than half the road so can collide with oncoming traffic, there is a danger to oncoming traffic. Pump Lane with the speed limits being as they are people tend to speed through them and also anticipate as they're going out agreed to be ramping up their speed, the RAF estate itself should have a 20 mile per hour limit but the sides have long since disappeared, Reverend Lester who is the is the vicar at Our Lady of Pity church he has confirmed and a number of his congregation have said to us, which is coming out of the church on a Sunday is very difficult particularly because the congregations are more elderly so coming out of the church across the road on Mill Lane on a bend by Barker Lane is just very difficult and quite dangerous and possibly the biggest site of accidents is the junction, so Greasby village shops where you come down through the village there is a crossroads actually but it's not marked as a crossroads you can come out of McDonald Drive turn left into Greasby Road or go straight to Arrowe Road and the amount of parked cars there particularly when cars are speeding down through the village which they do as downhill there have been a number of accidents and while we know that our funds are limited and you go mostly were there are more fatalities there have been so many accidents there were people have been injured for months and it's affected their lives that we would ask particularly that you look around there but in addition to that is the schools I know you have been looking at that but we really need our schools to be safer, myself I live right near Brookedale School and the amount of cars speeding down there in the morning because the late is ridiculous 40 mile an hour on a residential Road just because they're late it's wrong so if I could ask the committee considered all these points and the rest of the points that have made in my letter is a single major concern for residents Greasby, Frankby and Irby and I would appreciate your attention thank you.

Councillor Grey thanked Gail for her statement and mentioned that she had been out collecting road safety concerns for residents with Gail and others in this area and other areas. The experience had informed her as she was going into the Road Safety Working Group and the recommendations were being voted on later in this Committee meeting.