Letters 'Insulted' by cul de sac proposal
Sir - in response to your article on February 7 (Petition aims to reduce accidents), where residents of Westbrook Road in Gilberdyke have signed a petition calling for the road to be closed off at one end and made into a cul-de-sac. Well, wouldn't it be nice if we had every road made into a cul-de-sac to reduce traffic and the risk of potential accident.
Of course that would reduce accidents. In reality, Westbrook is no different to any other road and all they are going to succeed in doing is to move their problem to somebody else. Closing Westbrook will not stop speeding motorists but move them to their good neighbours.
Your article relates to people using Westbrook as a "cut through" to the school. Well, isn't that what roads are for, Westbrook included? It won't stop people driving to school but just force them down neighbouring roads like Bellasize, where I live.
The only effect closing this access would have is for those residents on Bellasize that drive through Westbrook to Station Road, the school and shops or out of the village. Nobody else is faintly affected, so I take personal insult that people on Westbrook feel that they are above the rest and imply that the 'speeding motorists' that cut through are from Bellasize and wish to pass the problem on.
If the problem is speeding motorists, please let's just stop them, undertake that problem and do not impinge on everybody else.
While the parish councillors are looking at this in conjunction with the school travel plan, they need to consider that blocking off Westbrook road will force vehicle down Bellasize and then have to drive past the school to get to Station Road and the shops, or exiting the village towards Hull.
The only positive out of a closure would be that it would stop those few boy racers that live on Westbrook cutting through to Bellasize.
Andrew J. Swinley
Gilberdyke
Published on 14th February 2008 in Letters.
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