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Stephanie Brawn

Council will not take action in Renfrew street despite concerns over speeding cars shaking houses

Roads chiefs will not introduce any traffic calming measures in a Renfrew street despite residents calling for speeding to be tackled.

A petition signed by 60 people was submitted to the council earlier this year asking for action to be taken in Oxford Road after residents became concerned houses were shaking from cars racing past.

Campaigners claimed drivers were trying to beat traffic lights at the junction of Oxford Road and Paisley Road and did not pay "the slightest heed" to the suggested limit of 20mph.

After receiving the petition from resident Alistair MacLennan, the council carried out a sample speed survey to investigate the issue.

But after finding the majority of cars were driving below the limit, officers have said they cannot do anything else at this time.

A report to the infrastructure, land and environment board said: "The initial assessments recorded 216 vehicle speeds on Oxford Road between Paisley Road and Cambridge Road.

"This is a significant enough number of vehicles for the survey to be considered valid and a good indicator of true traffic speeds.

"The results of the initial surveys of Oxford Road Renfrew do not trigger consideration of any further action in this case.

"Officers will continue to monitor the area and should the
situation change in the future will be able to assess the position again."

At a meeting of the petitions board in June Mr MacLennan, who has lived in Oxford Road for about 40 years, told councillors school buses and HGVs were using the road as a shortcut and this was causing some houses to vibrate.

The council takes action on a road if the 85th percentile speed of surveyed vehicles exceeds the speed limit, which on Oxford Road is 30mph.

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As this speed was recorded as 29mph, roads chiefs deemed it was not necessary to introduce any more measures.

The survey was carried out between approximately 8am and 10am and 4pm and 6.30pm.

The report also said the website CrashMapUK - which holds all road injury accidents reported by the police - said there had been no reports for Oxford Road in the past three years.

Council bosses would consider further action to be necessary if two or more pedestrian or cyclist injury accidents had been recorded in that time.

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