A road in Winster is to be closed for 10 days so a drain can be connected.
From tomorrow until Friday, April 20, East Bank will be shut for 200m from its junction with West Bank in the direction of the village centre.
For details, call 01629 580000 ext.7685
Chris Sabian, Peak District View - 2007-04-10 07:46:44
Showing posts with label roads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roads. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Fenny Bentley blackspot claims another life
A motorcyclist died in an accident on a notorious stretch of road near Fenny Bentley.
The 52-year-old man, who has not yet been named, was riding his Ducati motorbike when it was in collision with a Fiat Stilo on the A515 half-a-mile north of Tissington yesterday lunchtime.
The incident was attended by emergency services, including an air ambulance and police helicopter.
It was the sixth fatality in less than four years on the stretch of the A515 either side of Fenny Bentley.
The A515 was reopened at 5pm.
Any witnesses to the crash should call the police on 01773 572929.
Chris Sabian, Peak District View - 2007-04-10 07:41:30
The 52-year-old man, who has not yet been named, was riding his Ducati motorbike when it was in collision with a Fiat Stilo on the A515 half-a-mile north of Tissington yesterday lunchtime.
The incident was attended by emergency services, including an air ambulance and police helicopter.
It was the sixth fatality in less than four years on the stretch of the A515 either side of Fenny Bentley.
The A515 was reopened at 5pm.
Any witnesses to the crash should call the police on 01773 572929.
Chris Sabian, Peak District View - 2007-04-10 07:41:30
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Sisters support road campaign
Two sisters who lost their parents in two separate motorbike accidents on Derbyshire Dales roads have joined British Superbike star Leon Haslam to launch Derbyshire Constabulary's annual motorcycle casualty reduction campaign.
Melanie and Kerry Smith's father Philip Griffin was travelling at around 70mph in a 50mph zone when he crashed on the A6 at Cromford, in October 2005.
Their mother, Colleen, was killed in a collision on Alicehead Road, in Ashover, in August 2001.
The launch of Operation Focus 2007 took place at the collision hotspot on the A6, near Cromford, on Monday, and aims to reduce deaths and injuries involving motorcyclists on the county's roads.
Melanie, 28, of Leabrooks, said: "By backing this campaign, we hope that it will encourage bikers to slow down and ride more safely.
"Think of the effect that a crash has on the family that is left behind. It has been so incredibly tough for us and I wouldn't want anybody else to have to go through that."
Operation Focus, which will run from April to September, will use a combination of enforcement and education to encourage motorcyclists to slow down and reduce the number of casualties on the county's roads.
The following routes have been highlighted as collision hot routes and will receive increased enforcement during Operation Focus: A6 Homesford Cottage near Cromford, A5012 Via Gellia, B5035 Ashbourne to Wirksworth and A6 Matlock Bath to High Peak Junction.
Chris Sabian, Peak District View - 2007-04-05 03:15:49
Melanie and Kerry Smith's father Philip Griffin was travelling at around 70mph in a 50mph zone when he crashed on the A6 at Cromford, in October 2005.
Their mother, Colleen, was killed in a collision on Alicehead Road, in Ashover, in August 2001.
The launch of Operation Focus 2007 took place at the collision hotspot on the A6, near Cromford, on Monday, and aims to reduce deaths and injuries involving motorcyclists on the county's roads.
Melanie, 28, of Leabrooks, said: "By backing this campaign, we hope that it will encourage bikers to slow down and ride more safely.
"Think of the effect that a crash has on the family that is left behind. It has been so incredibly tough for us and I wouldn't want anybody else to have to go through that."
Operation Focus, which will run from April to September, will use a combination of enforcement and education to encourage motorcyclists to slow down and reduce the number of casualties on the county's roads.
The following routes have been highlighted as collision hot routes and will receive increased enforcement during Operation Focus: A6 Homesford Cottage near Cromford, A5012 Via Gellia, B5035 Ashbourne to Wirksworth and A6 Matlock Bath to High Peak Junction.
Chris Sabian, Peak District View - 2007-04-05 03:15:49
Friday, March 30, 2007
Bypass Turmoil
Pressure is mounting on the Government to abandon a public inquiry into proposals for a new trans-Pennine bypass which could create traffic chaos in South Yorkshire following revelations that the cost of the scheme have already doubled from original estimates.
A public inquiry into the Mottram to Tintwistle bypass, which would remove traffic congestion from the villages on the west of the Pennines, is due to start in the summer at an anticipated cost of £2m.
But there is widespread opposition to the development because if that section of road is freed up to traffic, it will attract vehicles from the M62.
That is expected to both add to pollution in the environmentally sensitive Peak District and create similar queues of vehicles in the Millhouses and Langsett areas because resulting traffic would be too much for roads there to cope with.
Original figures suggested the bypass would cost a total of £90m when the scheme was first proposed in 2003, but in the last four years that prediction has grown to £184m.
Opposition groups argue the £2m cost of the public inquiry itself is a waste, when a less damaging alternative scheme is needed.
Work on the new road would not start until 2013 and opposition groups believe the inquiry could be postponed until at least other alternatives had been investigated.
The Council for National Parks has now written to the Government asking that the inquiry should be postponed to create more thinking time.
Several different organisations are objecting to the scheme, including a group formed in South Yorkshire called WAIT, which believes traffic problems currently experienced in Mottram and Tintwistle will be transferred to the Penistone area if the road is built.
The Highways Agency has already accepted the principle that traffic problems may result and is investigating a traffic light scheme which would hold back traffic to control the number of vehicles on the Woodhead Pass.
Spokesman for WAIT Steve Webber said: "The upward spiralling costs of the revised proposal for this flawed by-pass scheme maintain the ludicrous theory that building expensive unwanted roads will solve our traffic problems.
"The costly addition of new route restraint measures on the A616 at Langsett & Midhopestones is a knee-jerk
reaction by the Highways Agency to the extremely high level of local objections to the scheme and serve only to highlight the Highways Agency contempt for the wishes of local residents," he said.
According to protesters, the development would increase trans-Pennine traffic on the route by 40 per cent, leading to a nine per cent rise in C02 levels.
It would also cut through a nature reserve called Swallow's Wood and a protest group has been organised to try to save that from development.
A Council for National Parks spokeswoman said: "When weighed alongside the major impact that this bypass will have on the Peak District National Park, the high financial cost of building the bypass should mean that it is scrapped.
"Instead, safety measures which are a fraction of the cost and which could start to make a significant difference should be implemented as a matter of urgency."
Chris Sabian, Peak District View - 2007-03-30 15:25:41
A public inquiry into the Mottram to Tintwistle bypass, which would remove traffic congestion from the villages on the west of the Pennines, is due to start in the summer at an anticipated cost of £2m.
But there is widespread opposition to the development because if that section of road is freed up to traffic, it will attract vehicles from the M62.
That is expected to both add to pollution in the environmentally sensitive Peak District and create similar queues of vehicles in the Millhouses and Langsett areas because resulting traffic would be too much for roads there to cope with.
Original figures suggested the bypass would cost a total of £90m when the scheme was first proposed in 2003, but in the last four years that prediction has grown to £184m.
Opposition groups argue the £2m cost of the public inquiry itself is a waste, when a less damaging alternative scheme is needed.
Work on the new road would not start until 2013 and opposition groups believe the inquiry could be postponed until at least other alternatives had been investigated.
The Council for National Parks has now written to the Government asking that the inquiry should be postponed to create more thinking time.
Several different organisations are objecting to the scheme, including a group formed in South Yorkshire called WAIT, which believes traffic problems currently experienced in Mottram and Tintwistle will be transferred to the Penistone area if the road is built.
The Highways Agency has already accepted the principle that traffic problems may result and is investigating a traffic light scheme which would hold back traffic to control the number of vehicles on the Woodhead Pass.
Spokesman for WAIT Steve Webber said: "The upward spiralling costs of the revised proposal for this flawed by-pass scheme maintain the ludicrous theory that building expensive unwanted roads will solve our traffic problems.
"The costly addition of new route restraint measures on the A616 at Langsett & Midhopestones is a knee-jerk
reaction by the Highways Agency to the extremely high level of local objections to the scheme and serve only to highlight the Highways Agency contempt for the wishes of local residents," he said.
According to protesters, the development would increase trans-Pennine traffic on the route by 40 per cent, leading to a nine per cent rise in C02 levels.
It would also cut through a nature reserve called Swallow's Wood and a protest group has been organised to try to save that from development.
A Council for National Parks spokeswoman said: "When weighed alongside the major impact that this bypass will have on the Peak District National Park, the high financial cost of building the bypass should mean that it is scrapped.
"Instead, safety measures which are a fraction of the cost and which could start to make a significant difference should be implemented as a matter of urgency."
Chris Sabian, Peak District View - 2007-03-30 15:25:41
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