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...THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT TO GET THE CROSSING IN on LONDON ROAD......WE NEED TO SUPPORT THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN AND GET A CROSSING OUTSIDE EVERY SCHOOL..........

22nd December:

WE HAVE WON A CROSSING.

The COUNTY COUNCIL will be putting in CROSSINGS on both London Rd and Wylds Lane.

JANUARY 2009

(Well we hope it is in then, though we think it may TAKE MONTHS TO GET DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

As of today 12th APRIL 2009 we still have NO NEWS on when it is going to happen. I think it is time to start asking the QUESTION !. Though we are happy to get one in we would prefer it SOONER rather than later. Come on COUNCIL - PULL FINGER !!!!

PLEASE VISIT MY 2009 CAMPAIGHNS PAGE

Thank you to ALL those WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THIS.

Dear Mr Lamb,

Congratulations. I think it is fantastic that you have managed to
succeed with this campaign. Safety will be improved as a result and
that is a great achievement.

I was pushing Derek Prodger up at County on this only a couple of
weeks ago and it seems that I was pushing on an open door thanks to
the hard work that you and you supporters have put in. If you don't
mind I'm going to use your campaign as an example of how people can
make a real difference and how local government needs to be made to
listen.

I do hope McAyla is on the road to a full recovery and that you and
all the family will have a happy Christmas.

best wishes,

Robin Walker (Con)
PPC for Worcester

6 PADESTRIANS INJURED IN LAST 3YRS. THIS ON A 500yrd STRETCH OF ROAD WITH INADEQUATE CROSSINGS

WE WILL HAVE A CROSSING NOW !

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We need more of THESE !

Mcayla.com Crossings Campaign

This is the first campaign. I feel that there is NO SAFE way to cross the road at the junction of London Rd, Wylds Lane and Seabright Ave in order to get to the Tesco's store side. The intersection and road is a main route for SCHOOL CHILDREN and other padestrians which I feel is very unsafe. This results in people trying to cross a main A road without the assistance and safety of a crossing where we need one. We want the council to put up MORE SIGNS around ALL our schools. They should also put up MUCH BRIGHTER signs reminding people about thier speed and padestrians are in this area.

IT IS TIME we all started to look at road safety.

Brake’s survey of 1,505 children in the West Midlands also found:

More than four out of ten (42%) have been hit or nearly hit by a vehicle while walking

Nearly half (47%) fear being knocked down

Seven out of ten (70%) say the roads around their school are dangerous

Nearly four in ten (37%) say they find it hard to find a safe place to cross

71% of children would prefer to walk or cycle to school, but only 56% do so

Four in ten (41%) know someone who’s been knocked down by a vehicle

Nearly half (46%) say someone in their family drives too fast.

Of the children who cycle, three in ten (31%) have been hit or nearly hit by a vehicle while cycling.

The Government put the spotlight on child road safety earlier in 2007 when it published its Child Road Safety Strategy. The strategy encourages Local Authorities to carry out ‘child road safety audits’ and to ‘consider’ wider use of 20mph zones and traffic calming in areas where children use roads.

However, Brake says the strategy doesn’t go far enough. Communities campaigning for 20mph limits are often turned down on the basis that ‘there hasn’t been a death yet’, because of a lack of funding, or because traffic flow is prioritised on a particular road.

Brake is urging the Government to introduce 20mph as the default limit in built-up areas. Other essential measures being called for by Brake include pavements, crossings and off-road cycle paths linking homes and amenities and compulsory road safety education in schools.

Click this picture to link to County Council WALKING

Open the attached file BELOW for details of what I propose, print it off and put it in with the letter. Then get everyone to send a letter or email in too, make a project of it. WE WANT CHANGE, lets see how many you can get to send a letter in, you could even get your class or school to make a project out of it. If you let me know I will feature it on this site.

DONT FORGET to INCLUDE this website in your letter or email :mcayla.com

HOW WE ACHIEVED THE CROSSINGS

EMAIL FROM MP Mike Foster

Dear David

Thank you for your e-mail and may I begin by sending my best wishes to you and the family, and in particular to McAyla, who I understand is incredibly brave and making very good progress. As the father of three children, living in the London Road area, I can fully appreciate how distressing the past month has been for you and I admire your determination to campaign on behalf of McAyla and to try and get something positive from this terrible accident.

I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by someone supporting the McAyla campaign for better pedestrian crossing facilities in the area and I have already contacted Worcestershire County Council to see what can be done to review the speed of traffic and the pedestrian facilities in London Road.

As soon as I have a response to my enquiries I will contact you again, but rest assured I will do all I can to support this campaign, not just in London Road, but in many other similar roads in Worcester. Please pass on my best wishes to McAyla and I hope she continues to make excellent progress.

Michael Foster

from the office of

Michael Foster MP (Worcester)

Responce from Robin Walker

Dear Mr Lamb,

Thank you for contacting me about McAyla's campaign. I am indeed
supporting it and I think you are drawing attention to a very serious
issue.

Only last week I was outside Nunnery Wood High School to draw
attention to simillar problems on Spetchley Road, which are putting
the lives of schoolchildren in real danger.

I support having 20 MPH limits around schools where practicable and I agree that they need to be as clearly signposted as possible. I also support having proper crossings where they can be safely introduced. I am well aware of the problems on London Road. It looks to me like your proposed crossing points make sense, I will make enquiries as to how the councils have reviewed these and I will draw the attention of my colleagues an friends on both the city council and the county council to your campaign and its proposals.

Please accept my best wishes for you and your family, especially
McAyla, who is clearly a brave and inspiring girl. Congratulations on
what you are doing - it is important for people to take a stand and
you have bravely gone forward and done so.

best wishes,

Robin Walker
PPC Worcester

THESE ARE FACTS !

Number of children (aged less than 16) killed or seriously

injured in the authority:

2003/2004 - 22

2004/2005 - 25

Ensure all crossing points have facilities to assist disabled

people

2003/2004 - 100%

2004/2005 - 100%

Really.....have you tried to cross at Wylds Lane and London Road it is a pity sight as a disabled crossing ?

Information from Worcester County Council 2004/2005 Annual Prgress Report

Download McAyla's Proposals

Download Progress Report County Council

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