YELLOW LINING OF MESSINGHAM ROAD (A159)
North Lincolnshire Council is minded to introduce double yellow lines (known as a Traffic Regulation Order) along Messingham Road from the junctions of Burringham Road and Moorwell Road/Manor Road (Yaddlethorpe Cross Roads).
The lines are designed to prevent the indiscriminate parking which block the cycle lanes and despite attempts to resolve the situation amicably, this unfortunately hasn't been achieved.
The consultation period should last approximately six weeks beginning on the week commencing 8th December 2008 and ending on the week commencing 16th January 2009, allowing those that both support and oppose the introduction to make their views known.
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dereck charlton
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on09 January 2009at19:42
hi my daughter lives in messingham road and we go there very sunday they have a share drive we have to park outside as theres no room in the drive can you tell me were im going to park if yellow lines are put there has any one counted how many bikes use this road i have seen three when i sat there looks like other thoughtless idea like the ramps on cottagebeck road come on you planners have other think
L Popple
on14 January 2009at15:41
As a resident of Messingahm Road for approx. 23 years, the idea of double yellow lines is totally thoughtless towards the residents, I have never come across any problem on this road all the time I have lived here with cyclist nor cars.
There is also a number of residents who do not have driveways and some like myself and several others have a legally shared driveway. So, where do visitors and service people park?? To block a shared drive with visitors or tradesmens vans etc is not legal on both parts of the residents.
I still have the original letters sent to us from the Council, the first is a general letter telling us they are proposing to put cycle lanes in, the second is that the lanes had been applied with a comment about vehicles being parked on the lanes and asking when possible to park off road. Draconian measures were then threatened if there was no compliance.
The third letter is also asking to park off road, but the North Lincs tenants who do not have off road parking will not get any kind of funding to rectify the problem therefore they still have to park on the road. This would cause a two tier situation which is wrong, you cannot implement a rule for one and not the other.
We have monitored the use of the lanes and it is very minimal, also the cyclist are using the paths more than the lanes, whether there are vehicles or not.
Why don't the Council use the large verge on the west side of Messingham Road, it is quite wide enough to accommodate cycle lanes in both directions, as you have done on Brigg Road! Car users pay road tax and insurance to be on the road, surely this gives a car owner and a resident a significant say regarding this proposition.
I have no opposition to cyclists being able to have a safe journey, but the roads were built and designed for motor vehicles in general, not for cycle lanes to be added decades later thus narrowing the roads. So come Mr Steve Swift & North Lincs Council consider others and not just a few cyclists in comparison to the many vehicles that use it.
L Popple of Messingham Road
There is also a number of residents who do not have driveways and some like myself and several others have a legally shared driveway. So, where do visitors and service people park?? To block a shared drive with visitors or tradesmens vans etc is not legal on both parts of the residents.
I still have the original letters sent to us from the Council, the first is a general letter telling us they are proposing to put cycle lanes in, the second is that the lanes had been applied with a comment about vehicles being parked on the lanes and asking when possible to park off road. Draconian measures were then threatened if there was no compliance.
The third letter is also asking to park off road, but the North Lincs tenants who do not have off road parking will not get any kind of funding to rectify the problem therefore they still have to park on the road. This would cause a two tier situation which is wrong, you cannot implement a rule for one and not the other.
We have monitored the use of the lanes and it is very minimal, also the cyclist are using the paths more than the lanes, whether there are vehicles or not.
Why don't the Council use the large verge on the west side of Messingham Road, it is quite wide enough to accommodate cycle lanes in both directions, as you have done on Brigg Road! Car users pay road tax and insurance to be on the road, surely this gives a car owner and a resident a significant say regarding this proposition.
I have no opposition to cyclists being able to have a safe journey, but the roads were built and designed for motor vehicles in general, not for cycle lanes to be added decades later thus narrowing the roads. So come Mr Steve Swift & North Lincs Council consider others and not just a few cyclists in comparison to the many vehicles that use it.
L Popple of Messingham Road
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