Killingworth Lane Dangerous Cut Through

Birchwood Town Council have had to listen to complaints about the numbers of cars cutting through Killingworth Lane, and indeed the excessive speed of the traffic.

"The Town Council has in the past put up signs advising drivers that there may be children playing and asking them to slow down. One resident commented that the signs are no longer effective, citing a lack of respect for both the law and fellow residents as the main reason for the potentially dangerous behaviour of some drivers."

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This is not the first time that the issue has been raised at Birchwood Council this was reported back in August:

Lane is dangerous short cut

From the archive, first published Monday 7th Aug 2006.

KILLINGWORTH Lane in Gorse Covert is being used as a potentially dangerous short cut for the school, an angry resident has told Birchwood Town Council.
She said cars come flying'
round the roundabout on their way to Gorse Covert Primary School while residents are trying to reverse off their drives.
She said: "Do we just keep going on like this until somebody gets hurt?"


From the archive
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Perhaps the message is not getting through. This is dangerous, and I would hope that it wont take the injury or death of a child before the Council take hard action. The answer is to make Killingworth Lane into a cul-de-sac, thereby reducing the traffic along Ashdown Lane which is used as a short cut instead of Gorse Covert Road. Ashdown Lane, being straighter than Killingworth Lane allows drivers to get to higher speeds than is possible on Killingworth Lane.

Let's have some action instead of platitudes from the Council.