ePetition - Speed Bumps Mile Oak Road

Council response

Thank you for organising the petition and I’m sorry to hear about the loss of family pets.

In the past some Local Authorities, including Brighton & Hove City Council, did invest significant sums on large scale traffic calming schemes in an attempt to reduce collisions and the severity of any collisions. Whilst this programme had been successful in many cases the cost to others was not really factored in. This cost was widespread to others including those with disabilities such as neck or back problems either driving, being driven or on public transport experiencing more suffering and the emergency services whose response time are adversely affected negotiating speed tables or humps. The cost of installing and maintaining these measures was also significant and along with other councils we used to spend large amounts on these schemes, however, most of this funding was provided by central government and this money is no longer available to us.

These schemes were prioritised using collision figures that are provided by the Police so the schemes were targeted at areas or single roads that had a high number of collisions that were causing injuries, especially to pedestrians. I am pleased to say that this part of Mile Oak Road has been checked and it has been found that in the past three years there have been no injuries caused by collisions. We know that losing a pet is very traumatic, but I am sorry we cannot take injuries to animals into account as these are not recorded.