Campaigning residents may be one step closer to putting the brakes on speeding motorists in Daws Heath.
Castle Point Council has agreed to carry out a site inspection of Daws Heath Road after more than 100 residents united to call for traffic-calming measures in their street.
The council has, however, acknowledged that there would be difficulties in slowing traffic on the notorious stretch of road.
The 106 residents, who signed the petition, sent to council chairman of highways and leisure Ray Howard, fear someone will be killed if action is not taken soon.
The petition stated: "The road in parts is flanked on the east and west side by extremely narrow footpaths, which are used by young children, mothers with pushchairs, the elderly and children walking to school.
"This is an unclassified road subject to a speed limit of 30mph, but an increasing number of vehicles and motorcycles are travelling well in excess of this limit particularly in the early morning and evening.
"There have been several accidents over the past three to four years. Fortunately, none have proved to be fatal, but it is felt that some form of traffic-calming measure should be introduced to prevent the inevitable from happening."
But the council's director for technical services, Nigel Thomas, said while they would be investigating the road and the alleged problems, putting traffic-calming measures into place wasn't necessarily the next step.
Published Wednesday July 21, 2004
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