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Last night was the Surrey County Council Local Committee for Surrey Heath – quite a mouthful – Local Committee from here on. This is Part I of my report on the meeting.

I got to the meeting not long after 5.30pm, and it ended after 9.30pm. So that’s another night of a long meeting. I had to stay right to the end for the moment to present my Red Road Petition, but more on that in Part II.

The Local Committee has a public open question time from 6.00pm to 6.30pm. It was here that I asked my questions about the missing road traffic warning signs at the bends on Red Road.

I’d spent the whole of the afternoon writing a four-page paper on the topic to present at the meeting to back up my case. I titled my submission: ‘A paper on the bends on the B311 Red Road in Lightwater’.

I pondered on how to present the pictorial evidence of the missing signs to make it meaningful. So, I plumped on a section called Roadside Evidence, where I included photographs of the remnants of the missing road signs that I’d found while scrambling around in the roadside ditches.

Then I happened on a solution, why not detail the Existing and Missing Traffic Signs, as though one was travelling from the Maultway to Gordon School roundabout, and also in the opposite direction. That worked fine, as it enabled me to then link the missing signs to the pictorial evidence of their existence I’d found on Google Street View.

Report in hand I asked the two questions that I’d previously informed the Local Committee I’d intended to ask, which were:

1. “What steps are being taken to replace demolished road signs on the bends of Red Road?”
2. “What road safety maintenance is planned for this stretch of road, and will it include the removal of the grass covering the road edge rumble strip, repainting of the white lines, and installation of cat’s eye’s in place of the reflectors?”

Because I’d provided the Local Committee of advance knowledge of my questions, I got answers to them.

In answer to the first question. Magnificently the answer was that they would all be replaced, and that would happen before the end of March. Phew. Success.

The answer to question 2 was positive, in that highway engineers had given this part of Red Road a walking inspection. Good. But they determined that no immediate action was necessary, other that the regular scheduled maintenance.

I’m delighted with the result. I’m sure all the users of Red Road, regular, new, and cautious, will benefit from having the signs replaced. It’s for them I’m pleased, because users have wanted to see action taken to improve road safety.

NOTE: There was an accident on Red Road early on Wednesday evening. I know someone who took pictures, so will find out more soon.

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