A councillor for the Woburn Sands ward is backing resident's demands for an extended 20mph zone in the town.
Cllr David Hopkins will be presenting a resident’s petition signed by over 100 local residents during Full Council on 14th June.
The petition calls for a 20 MPH zone to be installed covering the Downham Road area of Woburn Sands.
The signatures have been collected by local residents and passed to Cllr Hopkins for presentation at the Milton Keynes City Council meeting.
Cllr Hopkins reports that 'In a recent survey of local people in Woburn Sands, 82% of those who responded supported a uniform reduction of the speed limit to 20MPH across the whole of the town’.
The petition is signed by over 100 Downham Road residents concerned that Downham Road remains the only major artery in the town not have these restrictions in place, despite being used by drivers avoiding the congestion at the Aspley Hill and High Street junction.
Cllr Hopkins continues: "Reducing the speed limit from 30MPH to 20MPH on this busy residential street would benefit all residents of Woburn Sands and its neighbouring communities."
The Councillor says introducing a 20mph limit on this road would:
- Make the roads less attractive to speeding through traffic and rat runners, decreasing traffic volumes
- Increase road safety for all, encouraging cyclists back onto the roads and children to all or cycle to local school with knock on positive health consequences for all
- Reduce air pollution locally
- Reduce the stressful local disruption and traffic noise
- Lead to a more pleasant, healthy, and less stressful living environment in Woburn Sand and thus
- Attracting visitors in to use local facilities including shops, cafes, restaurants, the library, and other businesses
- Encourage people to leave their cars at home and walk or cycle
- Improve community cohesion and opening up safer links between the built up and rural (Greensands Ridge) parts of the Parish
- Encourage nature networks and increasing biodiversity in the town’
