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Topic ID 971
27/09/2005 by Victor Meldrew
Traffic survey on the North Road
Have seen them surveying traffic on North Road acouple of time over the last few month. Does anyone know what they are looking to achieve from this?? Are they looking to prove there is too much through traffic? Or are the Council just under budget again?
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Reply ID 10622
27/09/2005 by Bobajob
Good to see someone with an open mind raising issues such as this.
Reply ID 10623
27/09/2005 by Victor Meldrew
Fair enough my original question may lean slightly toward the sarcastic side, but it is a genuine question. Its pretty obvious without having several people count cars, that there is too much traffic using the rat run and the North road from Waterford. A solution to the problem, I would imagine is a little less obvious. In fact someone with such an open mind as myself cannot even think of one.
Answers on a postcard.
Reply ID 10628
27/09/2005 by Victor Meldrew
Thank you Ewoowar. But I cannot see haw they will reduce the amount of traffic without building a bloody great road around Hertford. The Traffic in from the A10 south was even worse this morning, a 200 yard tail back and then both lanes chockablock from Mill Green right in to town. I was just glad to be driving the other way!
Reply ID 10630
27/09/2005 by Victor Meldrew
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Originally posted by Ewoowar
The council also conducts regular surveys of traffic volumes around the town. These are accessible online.
Thanks again, but as you realised I drive through town morning and evening every day, so I do need to look at online numbers to know there is too much traffic.
Devil------Hertford----Deep Blue Sea.
Reply ID 10631
27/09/2005 by Steve
My guess would be that the solution would be influenced by how much excess traffic there was and if there were peaks and troughs.
Reply ID 10633
27/09/2005 by Victor Meldrew
A big peak from 7.45am that troughs out about 6.45pm [8D]
Reply ID 10652
28/09/2005 by jez_p
I think that classing North Road as a "Rat Run" is a little extreme - it is after all an A road and the main road from Hertford to Stevenage
Reply ID 10654
28/09/2005 by Victor Meldrew
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Originally posted by jez_p
I think that classing North Road as a "Rat Run" is a little extreme - it is after all an A road and the main road from Hertford to Stevenage
Please re-read
too much traffic using the rat run and the North road from Waterford
Nobody said that the North Road was a Rat Run.
Reply ID 10655
28/09/2005 by jez_p
Yes but you are still lumping the "Rat Run" and North Road together - The problems and the solutions to both stretches of road are very different.
Reply ID 10656
28/09/2005 by Victor Meldrew
quote:
Originally posted by jez_p
Yes but you are still lumping the "Rat Run" and North Road together - The problems and the solutions to both stretches of road are very different.
The problems both roads face are not different at all, they both have too much traffic use them. I used those examples as both are attached to one another.
The original question was, "does anyone know what the traffic survey was looking to achieve", not "does anyone know the difference between the North Road and the Rat run". Obvously at present the North Road is the only direct route from Hertford to Stevenage, but however I think the burning issue is, how many of those cars are actually using Hertford as a through route to there final destination?
Reply ID 10662
28/09/2005 by sloopjohnb
Not a definitive answer Victor but amongst many files on such things I found my own note:
'Hertford Transportation Plan
Dated 1987 approved by HCC 7.4.98
2.2 The A414 primary route – congested at peak times with a quarter of traffic passing through with no business in town.'
Various other reports have also been of the opinion that the long stay car parks were all taken up by commuters going to Hertford North.
These are now dated but doubt if much has changed, or the ratio has increased.
Reply ID 10664
28/09/2005 by CityBird
Traffic survey people were outside County Hall this morning.
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