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20mph zones in residential areas

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Edinburgh

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Schools area 20mph zonesBuckstone Estate

Phase 2 – Buckstone Drive and Buckstone Crescent

Have your sayThe Council is proposing to replace the existing speed cushions onBuckstone Drive and Buckstone Crescent with 75mm high speed humpsthat will take up the ull width o the carriageway.

This leaet explains why the changes are proposed and aims to answerany questions you may have. Please take a ew minutes to read theleaet and then return the enclosed FREEPOST eedback orm.

What happens next?

As the eatures shown on the attached plan are

being constructed under the terms o the Roads

(Scotland) Act 1984 you have until 29 April 2011 to

object to the construction o these Trafc Calming

Features. As set out in this Act notices advertising

the Council’s intention to construct these eatures

will also be put up on site and placed in a local

newspaper.

I the outcome o this consultation supports the

measures outlined in the plan overlea, work should

commence on site during autumn o 2011.

Further inormation

We welcome your views on this proposal. I you

wish to discuss this matter in more detail, please

contact Jacqueline Haley on 0131 469 3558 or

alternatively e-mail 20-zones@edinburgh.gov.uk or

write to the FRE EPOST address shown on the tear

o slip.

Further inormation on the proposals can be ound

online at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/consultations

You can get this document on tape, in Braille, largeprint and various computer ormats i you ask us.Please contact ITS on 0131 242 8181 and quotereerence number 11195. ITS can also give inormationon community language translations. You can get morecopies o this document by calling 0131 469 3558.

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20mph zones in school areas

Why are the existing trafc calming measures

changing?

The reduction o trafc speeds in residential areas

and around schools is considered a major priority in

achieving the Councils aim o having zero atalities

on the city’s roads.

The existing trafc calming scheme in Buckstone is

a 20mph zone in streets around the school, whichare within a natural boundary o Braid Road and

Comiston Road.

The majority o streets within the zone were

treated with 75mm high speed ‘cushions’, which

were introduced ollowing consultation with the

Scottish Ambulance Service. This type o eature

allows vehicles with a wider wheelbase, such as

ambulances, to pass over and bypass the eature

completely, reducing any discomort to passengers.

Since the speed cushions were installed there has

been an increase in the level o on-street parking

throughout the estate. This has made it increasingly

difcult or the speed cushions to be used correctly.

As a result o this and ollowing approval rom

the Transport, Inrastructure and Environment

Committee in February 2010, it was decided to

replace the speed cushions on Buckstone Road andBuckstone Loan with 75mm high speed humps that

take up the ull width o the road. The construction

o this phase was done during October 2010.

Approval is now being sought to replace the

existing speed cushions on Buckstone Drive and

Buckstone Crescent, with the same 75mm high

speed humps that will take up the ull width o the

road. The new speed humps will be placed in the

exact location as the existing speed cushions.

Please cut out and return eedback orm below by 29 April 2011.

Are you in avour o replacing the existing cushions with speed humps on Buckstone Drive and BuckstoneCrescent?

Yesq Noq 

To help us analyse responses, please could you tell us your postcode and street name.  

Key 

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Site boundary

Proposed

road hump

Existingroad hump

Existing

road cushions

Photos

Far left: Full width road humps

Left: Speed cushions