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Still campaigning for 40 and a better layout at the Cart and Horses Junction

by Jackie Porter on 31 January, 2017

A big crowd campaigns for a safer junction at the B3047/Cart and Horses/A33. We need County bosses to admit it hasn't worked and to find a better solution.

A big crowd campaigns for a safer junction at the B3047/Cart and Horses/A33.
We need County bosses to admit it hasn’t worked and to find a better solution.

The Change.org petition has reached over 1000 signatures online and despite letters written to the Executive member and the County Council Leader, the Deputees, Jill and David still don’t know the outcome of their deputation made to Council two months ago on the 24th November 2016.

If you use this junction, you can still sign online; go to Change.org and search ‘kings worthy 40’

Jackie Porter, County Councillor for this area, has asked many times for the results of the speed checks carried out since the deputation was made but like Jill and David, has only had holding replies, citing the inquest of the young man as the reason. Kings Worthy Parish Council hasn’t received the results either.

‘I believe that this junction has the worst accident record of all the roads coming out of Winchester’ says Jackie, ‘and with the increase in traffic as Kings Barton residents move in, this can only get worse.I have asked again for the sped data collected in December and in the New Year, but so far- silence.

Worried drivers are quite rightly taking longer to make the difficult decision to cross the lines of traffic, causing long lines of traffic, especially at peak times. The frustration of other drivers adds stress into the equation and drivers report feeling pressurized into moving forward, even if they don’t feel safe. Arguments continue about who has the right of way and the dotted lines are confusing.’

More people are saying that they are using Lovedon Lane and Park Lane to avoid the junction completely!

Jackie explains,

’We know the junction was created in good faith. But it hasn’t worked.
A former driving instructor said that she could see it was confusing from day 1.
Another current instructor has agreed.
The speed limit of 40mph was in the original design, but it wasn’t followed through.
We want the speed to be reduced to 40mph immediately.

But after the accidents and near misses, we all know that it isn’t just the speed.
We just want someone at the County Council to be ‘big enough’ to admit it confuses drivers, stop tinkering around with the design, and listen to people using the junction every day who want to see a completely new layout that works to and from all directions.
And then make the changes before another serious accident happens.

We petitioners won’t stop until we get some positive action. It isn’t safe, it isn’t fair.

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