Anti-speeding activists in a Bristol suburb are urging the council to help them solve the 'scary' speeding issue in their neighbourhood. A group of residents from the Lockleaze branch of community union Acorn have carried out a year-long campaign to improve road safety in their area, but they say that their promise of a meeting with a Bristol City Council cabinet member to discuss road improvements has been ignored.
The residents say that the council’s transport chief Don Alexander has not yet met with them to discuss how they can make their streets safer, even though he promised to do so when they met with him in September of last year, they claim. However, the councillor says that such infrastructure projects take years and that holding another meeting will do nothing to solve the problem.
The residents' petition for more traffic calming measures and for the council to introduce a long-term strategic plan to stop speeding has reached 292 signatures, and their campaign has seen the mums and kids of Lockleaze delivered 100 handwritten letters addressed to Cllr Alexander straight to City Hall. But they say there have been no concrete measures introduced in Lockleaze yet. And according to those who live there, the constant speeding has made the neighbourhood very unsafe.
