Demands for Hill Chorlton

What's needed to resolve the problems of Hill Chorlton is not massive. Neither is what we are asking for expensive in the scheme of things. It just requires the Highways planners to take a proper look at the road, consult with the residents and come up with some meaningful plans to calm the traffic and make the village a better safer place to live.

Here's a list of the measures which we think will make a difference. None of them are expensive and none of them would be difficult to implement:

• Reduce the speed limit to 30 mph through the village and 40 mph on the dangerous stretch between Hill Chorlton and Stableford.

• Place warnings signs to protect pedestrians on the narrow footway through the village, and to warn of the many concealed entrances to resident's houses. This is doubly important given that the footpath is only on one side of the road and residents have to cross the road to get to their houses. The road is only 6m wide at this point and truckers have very little margin for error, especially when they meet each other in opposite directions.

• Measures to slow the traffic around Kennels Lane. There are four agricultural businesses on Kennels Lane and the junction with the main road has been the site of several serious accidents. The measures currently proposed by Highways will help nobody because they do nothing to reduce the speed of eastbound traffic coming over the brow of the hill.

• Vehicle Activated Signs to warn drivers if their speed is excessive, or that they are passing through a residential area.

• Staffordshire Police have already give this road a higher priority for patrols and enforcement - thank you.

• Better warning signs to protect farmers who have to drive onto the fast road with its limited visibility with their cattle, slow moving tractors and heavily laden trailers.

• Better marking of the dangerous bends on the stretch between Hill Chorlton and Stableford. Arguably the most dangerous piece of road this side of Darlaston and Woore.

Expensive or difficult? We don't think so, or are we living on a different planet?