ON July 1 a meeting for Area One was held in Wanstead Library. At this meeting we who live in the Redbridge Lane West, Langley Drive and Overton Drive triangle were told that until the commuter traffic returned to its old volume, there was to be no protection for us. In other words, the council decided to do nothing.
On Friday, June 28, we counted 609 cars using Overton Drive, in one hour, from 8am to 9am. Some 680 vehicles used St Mary's Avenue in an hour at speeds far above the legal limit.
These facts move me to ask, just how many vehicles using our roads would spur the council to putting its residents' interests before that of the commuters coming in from all over East Anglia?
We are not main roads. We are purely residential and as such should be protected by the council we elect and support.
In section two of the Local Government Act 2000, the council is enabled to do anything to achieve "the promotion or improvement of the environmental well-being of the area".
We want to see traffic counters in our roads and some sign that this act is being implemented in Redbridge.
KATE HAYES, Langley Drive, Wanstead.
July 18, 2002 14:00
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