Category Archives: – Cycles and Cycling

- Cycles and Cycling, Cars and parking, Pedestrians and Walkers, Roads, Suffolk County Council

Woodbridge Thoroughfare closed to cars

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ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984: SECTION 14

 TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF PART OF THE U3628 THE THOROUGHFARE, WOODBRIDGE AND SUSPENSION

Suffolk County Council intends to make an order closing the U3628 The Thoroughfare, Woodbridge outside no. 88 next to the Red Lion Public House to enable repairs to a collapsed sewer. Other coordinated works may also take place during this period.

Access will be open for pedestrians and cyclists.

 The diversion route will be via Lime Kiln Quay Road, Quay Side and Quay Street.

 It is intended that the closure will operate on 4 July 2010 and 11 July 2010, but if necessary the order may remain in force for longer

 During the closure, The Suffolk County Council (Parish of Woodbridge) (Various Roads) (Traffic Regulation) Order 1975 will be suspended for access purposes insofar as it relates to one-way traffic in The Thoroughfare.

- Cycles and Cycling, Locality Budget

Bikes, maps, grit bins… Locality budget spends

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Recent applications for my locality budget funding have included:

Assistance to publish walking maps of Woodbridge

Bicycles for Town Pastors

Grit bins  to help residents de-ice their roads in the next cold spell

A Town Crier (- yes really!)

Keep these requests coming – I still have funds left for the year and I like to spread them across the needs of as many different types of operation as possible!

- Cycles and Cycling, Pedestrians and Walkers, Quality of Life funding, Roads, Schools, Transport, Your councillor

Walking to school: Ipswich Road, Woodbridge

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Congratulations to the members of Farlingaye High School who chose to address  transport and walking to school in relation to Ipswich Road traffic  when working on a Make a Difference programme. You may have heard the youngsters on BBC Radio Suffolk last week, as they investigated the speeds of traffic on Ipswich Road. The students interviewed me, very well and professionally, as a part of their project, and I also commented live on the issues on Mark Murphy’s breakfast programme on 20 May, before attending their assembly at Farlingaye that morning.

As you know I have  many concerns about speeding along Ipswich Road,  particularly in relation to those walking and cycling to Kyson and Farlingaye schools, andI have reserved £12,000 from Quality of Life money to build an island in the road which is being planned at the moment. Now the Highways department at Suffolk County Council have invited the FHS students to take part in the design of this island, so as to see the project through! Congratulations to all!