Road safety improvements on Lead Road, Greenside, from Woodside Lane to Folly Lane

We call upon Gateshead Council to prioritise and implement road safety improvements on Lead Road, Greenside, between Woodside Lane and Folly Lane including reducing the speed limit, installing physical traffic calming measures and improving signage.

Background information

This stretch of road is dangerous and suffers an ongoing significant accident record including fatalities, road traffic accidents, damage to parked cars and damage to property. The rate of incidents is increasing with at least three significant accidents in the past 12 months which required support from the emergency services. The natural incline of the road, combined with the density of residential properties on both sides, driveways, junctions and amenities, with parked cars causing reduced sight-lines makes this stretch of road more hazardous to pedestrians and road users than many other roads in the area where traffic calming measures have already been introduced. Road safety would be improved by a lower speed limit which we are seeking, although the hazards on this stretch of road have not been and will not be fully controlled by speed limits alone, and so we are seeking a package of measures including physical traffic calming.

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Principal petitioner

Joe Robinson

Closing date

30 April 2025

Signatures

313 _{(Online: 313 | Paper: 0)}

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