Stop speeding on new dip road

With reference to your news story, “3rd Ave dip project starts”, on page 3 of Friday’s The Herald, I am a resident and home owner in Glen Hurd Drive.

During peak traffic there is congestion as the dip is used as a short cut and an arterial route to and from Newton Park. This congestion will not probably change with the new road being constructed, but hopefully the road will become safer.

A few issues come to mind in that people regularly speed up and down the hill (in both directions) past Continental Butchery, down the dip, across the river, and up the other side to Alan Drive and William Moffett.

There are no speed bumps or traffic-calming measures anywhere, except the normal potholes.

The traffic officials are nonexistent in the area and traffic markings on the road have faded away.

Over the years we have had quite a few motorists driving into the back of one another, excess speeding late at night and a few idiotic motorbike riders vanishing into the river, hopefully never to be seen again.

The general concern is that now we are going to have a nice, new, straight and fast racetrack for irresponsible drivers to race down late at night, causing more unnecessary noise and havoc, and really become a distinct danger to the average road user and the residents’ properties.

Please can we be informed if at least provision has been made on the temporary and new bridge/road link, for traffic speed control measures such as speed bumps, metal “teeth rattlers”, tarred corrugations, armour barriers or camera traps, to help slow the traffic down and prevent possible loss of life.

There are residences on both sides of Glen Hurd Drive that becomes one with Third Avenue, and it’s only a matter of time before a vehicle or motorbike arrives unexpectedly in a home with possible fatal results.

If the funding does not go ahead for the second and third phases we could have a “temporary road” for the next 20 years!

Resident of Glen Hurd Drive