exposing errant driving through Stanford Rivers
For this blog entry, we welcome Richard Owen, CEO of Agilysis, a specialist road safety consultancy based in Oxfordshire.
Richard contacted us and very kindly agreed to run his own report on traffic speeds along the A113 through Little End, Stanford Rivers. What followed did not surprise us but it did shock us. If you’re a user of this road, this should shock you too, even more so if you’re a resident.
Continue reading “The Agilysis Report”Well, it’s been over a year since our last post and you might remember that we made some firm resolutions to get our campaign for safer roads some support from people that could help and have a responsibility to do so, including:
2023 is the year we’ve decided to turn up the pressure on those that should be supporting the campaign to make Stanford Rivers and the A113 safer.
Happy new year to you all from the developer, the bot and the rest of the team. We’re hoping that our local councillors, MP and police force have made new year’s resolutions to help our campaign for safer roads.
Support for the bot from those that can really make a difference has been a bit thin on the ground, despite us campaigning as hard as we can so we’ve decided to be a little more proactive this year by sending out personalised tweets to some of the people that can actually make a difference.
Continue reading “Campaign news for 2023”The effectiveness of the bot gathers pace, with Stanford Rivers Parish Council supporting the A113SpeederBot campaign.
We’re happy to report that the Parish Council have been working closely with our developer over many months and we are now working together with them in running the a113SpeederBot.
Continue reading “Cloning The Bot”Sometimes I get involved in debates on social media regarding vulnerable road users, who I always end up defending. Usually people on bikes, though I’m really defending people on horses and people on foot as well. People in cars don’t need defending, because they aren’t vulnerable to the more benign road users, so I usually end up siding with the people on bikes, horses or foot. Notice that I refer to all these individuals as people, not cyclists, horseriders or drivers. They’re people, okay, so why not treat them as such?
Continue reading “Who Owns The Roads? Myths and Misunderstandings.”We have permanent signage!
Back in December of 2021, I reported that The Parish Council was considering supporting the bot and I’m delighted to be able to say that the first its-real-and-you-can-look-at-it-and-touch-it evidence of this support has now manifested itself as permanent signage at both ends of the village.
Continue reading “Permanent Signage!”There has been no letup in speeding through the village of Stanford Rivers during the festive period, when we would all expect the volume of traffic to be much reduced, especially during the current pandemic and the holiday period meaning fewer people using our roads, the A113 included.
Continue reading “Festive speeding”Really moving along now, since positive action has been deployed in Stanford Rivers by Essex Police and, more recently, we have seen interest from the local Parish Councillor, Cllr Adams, who I am in touch with from time to time, and I have also received a thank you message from Cllr Jackson via email on 19th November 2021:
Continue reading “The Parish Council Considers Support”Really happy to update the blog with some good news.
Essex Police visited the village late last month to carry out speed checks through Stanford Rivers.
Continue reading “Enforcement Begins”After contacting our local MP, Alex Burghart (Conservative MP for Brentwood and Ongar), only to be told he cannot help me unless he has my name and address, together with being ignored over and over again by our local councillor, Jaymey McIvor, PC Fenn from the Essex Police Rural Engagement Team has made contact, initially with this tweet and more recently via email.
Continue reading “Essex Police make contact”
