FAQ 5. Effect on me
FAQ 5. Effect on me
How will it affect me?
What LCC says:
As previously stated, the scheme will improve movements to and from Aylestone Road /Saffron Lane, and there is likely to be an increase in traffic on Victoria Park Road. There will also be a slight increase of traffic on University Road as the scheme improves linkage from Aylestone Road to Regent Road. We understand that the University may wish to explore options for a potential scheme on University Road.
What we say:
We have looked at maps of the area and we find it very difficult to identify any significant improvement in routes from Regent Road to Aylestone Road – not a route well travelled anyway. The ‘slight increase in traffic’
noted for this improvement confirms this and as a claimed advantage of the scheme it can be disregarded.
This leaves the increase in traffic on Victoria Park Road as the only affect the council sees fit to mention. It is worth re-stating that increasing traffic on Victoria Park Road, which is already heavily congested at peak times, will have a range of consequences which will have other affects on local people. There will be more congestion on Victoria Park Road, which already has queuing traffic both ways along much of its length at peak times. This will mean longer queues and more delays at the Welford Road junction, at the two pedestrian crossings near WQE college, at the Queen’s Road junction, and at the Mayfield Road roundabout. Air quality will suffer, there will be more traffic noise, and journey times will lengthen. It will be harder to use Victoria Park Road to get anywhere, which is why rat-running will increase, and buses become less reliable.
The additional traffic and delays at the Queen’s Road junction will mean longer queues on Queen’s Road through the shopping centre to the detriment of shoppers and traders alike. This junction also has very significant pedestrian and cycle traffic, both of which are projected to increase, which already combine to create further delays at this point.
These are all ways in which this scheme will affect you. We find it hard to understand why the council omits to mention them. We find it even harder to understand the wisdom of deliberately routing more traffic through a largely residential road alongside a public park bordering on to a large 6th form college when that road is already heavily congested. It simply does not make sense.
