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"Dangerous" - Newport Councillors Call For Crackdown On Speeding Vehicles

Cllr Price and Cllr Brodie at the Newport end of Long Lane.

Two Newport councillors want more to be done to crackdown on speeding vehicles approaching the town.

Councillors Matthew Price and Geoff Brodie say they are particularly concerned about Staplers Road, Long Lane, Fairlee Road and Blackwater Road.
 
Clatterford Road and Whitcombe Road are also listed as speeding hotspots.  
 
Both councillors say residents at the top of Long Lane and Staplers Rd have been concerned at the speed of traffic entering and leaving the town for many years.
 
They want the Isle of Wight Council to fund a number of speed control measures to improve safety for residents. 
 
 
Cllr Brodie, IW Councillor for Newport East, who represents residents in the Long Lane/Buckbury Lane area, said:
 
"Many people in this area walk and try to cross these roads to catch buses or visit family and friends nearby. They find it very unsafe and they have had enough of putting their lives at risk.
 
"It is time that County Hall woke up to the myriad traffic problems in our town. Pedestrians and other road users have as many rights as motorists." 
 
Matt Price, IW Councillor for Newport North, who shares Long Lane and Staplers Road with Cllr Geoff Brodie, said:
 
"Both Staplers and Long Lane are becoming more dangerous all the time. There are various points along both of these roads where there have been accidents and near misses.
 
"We need some speed reduction measures to be introduced as soon as possible.
 
"I have the same issues along the whole of Fairlee Road where some drivers just drive way beyond the speed limits and often then rat-run too fast through Cross Lane and Halberry Lane. These roads lead from busy residential areas to Primary and Secondary schools and need to be made safe."
 
Other Newport & Carisbrooke IW Councillors, John Hobart, Julie Jones-Evans and Shirley Smart also support this call, according to Cllr Brodie and Cllr Price.
 
Newport & Carisbrooke Community Council, of which Cllrs Brodie and Price are also members, has previously called for a 20mph limit throughout the town.
 
It says this would help address speeding in through roads like Trafalgar Road and Carisbrooke High Street.
 
Cllr Brodie and Cllr Price both agreed:
 
"Road safety in and around Newport has been ignored for too long. We must all work collectively together to try and tackle this problem."

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