Chairman's Parish News - June 2009

 

HIGHWAYS

 

  1. Gerrards Cross Residents using the Station will be delighted to learn that the approach road is, not before time, to be resurfaced during this month.

 

  1. The M25 Widening Junction 16 to 23, the motorway will be close for nine hours between 10pm Saturday and 7am Sunday 20-21st June 2009.

 

  1. Following continued urging by the Council, two Speed Awareness Signs have been erected, one on the Packhorse Road approaching the Village and the other on Fulmer Drive. The sign on the Packhorse Road is close to the entrance to St Mary's School, one of whose pupils was knocked down by a car on that road last summer. It is hoped  that a third sign will be put up on the Windsor Road, another road notorious for speeding.

  

  1. Following continued lobbying by the  Council,  new lower speed limits are to be introduced or altered on three roads in the Parish. The first is Lower Road where a speed limit of 40 is to be introduced, another is the A40 where the speed limit of  40 is to be extended  to the Gerrards Cross  boundary in the   Beaconsfield direction  and the third is a reduction to 30mph on West Common from the pond to the A40.

 

  1. A promise has been secured from the Highways Authority that the missing and damaged Cats Eyes will all be replaced shortly on the A40 between Gerrards Cross and Beaconsfield. The experimental scheme of switching off the street lights is in force on this stretch which is heavily used and where one fatal accident has already occurred.