Laneshawbridge Speeding Concerns: Residents Demand Action

Burnley Express

Laneshawbridge residents are voicing serious concerns about speeding on Keighley Road, demanding immediate action to address the issue. This video explores the mounting worries of homeowners regarding dangerous driving and its potential impact on their safety and quality of life.  The community is calling for traffic calming measures to mitigate the risks associated with excessive speeds. They hope to create a safer environment for pedestrians, cyclists, and all residents. What steps can be taken to ensure drivers adhere to speed limits in this residential area?

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00:00The problem is speeding. I've got Adam here. I used to work in traffic management, so I

00:06have my own speed gun. So Adam, who lives on the estate here, kindly offered to stand

00:15over there at the end of the farm, catching speeders coming this way. And then he stood

00:22here where we are stood now, catching people. They come round the corner, there's a pub

00:26at the bottom there called the Emmet Arms. As soon as they come round from that corner,

00:30they see this long road with the dip. The 60 mile an hour is hundreds and hundreds of

00:35yards up the road there. But they come round there and then they floor it. The fastest

00:39speed, Adam caught many, many people over 60. The fastest speed recorded in only a six day

00:47period was 105 miles an hour. Mostly in the morning and a lot in the evening, you get people

00:53just constantly speed. About half the cars going past are going over the speed limit.

00:58Several of them doing double the speed limit. And it's just, it's a constant issue. Even

01:04in the middle of the night, you'll hear people flying past. As similar to Alan said, the speed

01:11camera's right at the bottom of the hill where there's a corner. So everyone's going under

01:1530 when they pass it. As soon as they've gone past the speed camera, they floor it. It's

01:20good 100, 200 yards up the hill before you see 60 miles an hour. But they're doing 60

01:24half the distance before they reach that. It's just, everyone on the estate is getting

01:30really sick of it now. And it's just, there's nothing we can do about it. We've tried speaking

01:34to the council. We've tried speaking to the police. They pass us back and forth between

01:38each other. Nowhere with it. It's at a wits end really, aren't we? There's a speed camera

01:44down there. Now, who thought to put it there? I don't know. But they aren't going to win

01:50any prizes. It's right before a bend. You have to slow down anyway. To my mind, as you come

02:00from the 60 to the 30, that speed camera should have been somewhere like over here to ensure

02:05you're doing 30 miles an hour. And perhaps another one facing this way just before Ycola

02:13view. So that as you pass the estate that we have to live on, you're not doing 105 miles

02:19an hour. And I don't know if people just think it's 60 after they pass the speed camera because

02:23they can't see that sign from down the bottom of the hill. But I'd say coming up the hill,

02:27it's more than half. It's 60, 70% of speeding. And again, 10 to 20% of those are probably

02:34doing 50, 60. It's a lot.

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