Road scheme concerns MP

Shailesh Vara, Conservative MP for North West Cambridgeshire, is pressing Peterborough City Council to review the traffic circulation scheme in Hempsted.

At present, traffic travelling along London Road must dive rt along either Cook Avenue or Drake Avenue depending upon its direction of travel. Only buses are permitted to continue along London Road via a dedicated bus lane.

Local resident, Lenka Majdakova, has been monitoring vehicle numbers and in one instance recorded 130 vehicles using Drake Avenue in 11 minutes whereas only two buses travelled along London Road.

Mr Vara, who visited thear- ea with Tory ward councillors Irene Walsh and Janet Goodwin, said an accident was waiting to happen, adding :“Whilst the scheme might have looked attractive to council planners on paper, in practice huge numbers of vehicles are passing through built-up residential areas with little regard to speed limits or pedestrians.”

Mr Vara, councillors and residents