Prevent road fatalities on A737 at Dalgarven.

  • by: James Burns
  • recipient: Scottish Parliament Highways agency
To support the return of Dalgarven to Village status
The reason for this petition is to make Dalgarven area (A737) safer for residents, visitors to Dalgarven Mill, customers of Dalgarven House Hotel, Saks & Hart Shop, pedestrians on the footpath, car drivers, motorbikes and cyclists passing through Dalgarven on the A737.
By achieving village status the speed limit can be reduced through the village from 60 MPH to 40 or 30 MPH. This will add only seconds onto the journey between Kilwinning and Dalry.
Apart from customers/visitors to the Mill, Hotel and Saks & Hart Shop, there are families, people with disabilities, elderly people, children, animals including horses and dogs crossing this busy twisting road.
Refuse Lorries, post office vans, delivery Lorries regularly, on a weekly or daily basis, have to stop outside the houses and other areas putting their personnel in danger as traffic speed round the bends.
Families with children regularly use the footpath (along with cyclists as it is far too dangerous to cycle on the road) while 40 ton Lorries, buses and other vehicles go past at up to 60 MPH (when they observe this limit!!)
Dalgarven fulfils all the criteria that the Scottish Government sets out for village status.(see Setting Local Speed Limits: Guidance for Local Authorities: ETLLD Circular 1/2006)
We believe achieving village status and reducing the speed limit will save lives, prevent accidents and allow Dalgarven village to thrive as it did in the past. Please consider adding you name and address to this petition which will be presented to our local MP/MSP for consideration.
Thank you for your support in helping to make this environment safer for everybody.
Update #18 years ago
I have now passed 300 signatures on paper and the Care2 petition. My story was in the Irvine Herald page 5 last week. I am awaiting word from our MSP Margaret Burgess who has requested a meeting with Transport Scotland regarding the relevant stretch of the A737.
Please encourage family and friends to sign this petition. Who knows, you may save a life.
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