Police should monitor traffic nuisance
From: Mrs Jan MacLellan, Coverdale Drive, Knaresborough.
Regarding the heavy lorries using Ripley Road, as we live in Coverdale Drive, we don’t see the offending vehicles but we can hear them on a regular basis.
I contacted the local police to see what they could do to prevent heavy lorries and buses beyond the weight limit using this route. The PC I contacted kept in touch for some time by email and assured me a regular ‘watch’ was being kept and no-one contravening the weight limit has been seen or reprimanded.
I’ve never seen a police vehicle doing spot checks on any stretch of this road in the last two years. I suppose they deem it to be not their job or don’t have time. Ten minutes a day parked in Lands Land would do the trick. Word between drivers would soon get around.
What concerns me is not just the pollution but the damage these vehicles are doing to the ancient drainage/sewer system from High Bond End to Bond End itself.
It’s been known for some time by Harrogate Borough Council (and if the County Council are not aware, then they should be) that they are in a bad way and have been for some time due to the vibrations these vehicles make. It would cost the County Council a heck of a lot of money if these were to collapse and also, think of the traffic problem if Bond End had to be dug up in its entirety. There’s a big enough problem if the Gas or Water Board carry out simple maintenance tasks.
Why, when the Council has money left over at the end of the year, do they spend it on ridiculous things like cycle paths (ie. the one on Knaresborough Road which gets very little use)? We all know that if a monetary residue is not spent by the end of the year, budgets are likely to be cut for the following year.
Maybe the Highways Department should send one of their desk bound paper pushers on an errand of mercy and get them to sit in all weathers monitoring the traffic.
It is not the job of local people who either work or are otherwise not in a position to do a day to day assessment to perform this task.
Residents of this area pay a horrific amount in Council Tax each year but we see very little of what it is spent on.
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