Speeding is increasing in the area and it creates real harm. It causes parents and vulnerable road users to be fearful of our streets
Speeding continues to blight our streets report where we regularly see speeding and driving while using a mobile phone.
It only takes one driver to floor the pedal or gun their engine between speed bumps for parents to decide that children cannot walk to school or go to the shops on their own.
The evidence of this speeding is all around us.
Being tailgated and beeped on the #Quietway on #BarnsburyRoad, #Islington is really scary! This impatient moron then twice passed on the wrong side of the mandatory bollards to swear at me! LS68 LYD. @MPSIslington @CycleIslington @SuptAndyCox #Headcam @theJeremyVine @IslingtonBC pic.twitter.com/sIitLtG6TM
— Highbury Cyclist (@HighburyCyclist) June 16, 2020
In 2018, three speed monitoring sessions took place with local Islington PSCOs at the junction of Liverpool Road and Barnsbury Street. The results were shocking, but not surprising. At all of these 15 minute sessions, every single vehicle was breaking the 20mph speed limit. The highest speed was 37mph.
Despite the presence of speed bumps and width restrictions across the ward, traffic races through our streets, putting our children, the elderly and indeed all of us in danger.
In addition to speeding, mobile phone use while driving means that many residents simply do not feel comfortable allowing children to cross roads on their own.