Suspension of site due to lack of interest and support.

The first 'post' on this site was back in 2009, this was 5 years after our campaign had been started.  At the time there was significant local interest and support, however, and in spite of requests for individuals to get involved, active interest disappeared some while ago.   Nothing whatsoever has been done by councillors or MPs to address either the speeding problem or the HGV traffic issue, both of which are considerably worse now than back in 2004.  One or two individuals complaining is of no concern to our elected representatives, nor as we have seen to the 'jobsworth' council officers tasked with dealing with such matters.

Anyone wishing to get involved with a view to resurrecting the campaign should contact Ian, email address lawrrag@gmail.com 

Jackanory Time - Lib Dems

It's coming up to local election time when the prospective political parties will be posting their campaign blurb.  The Liberal Democrats have been quick off the mark and we were intrigued to see the claims made about 'Tackling Speeding' (WHERE?), and 'Supporting local groups' (WHICH?):

The LAWRRAG campaign is the longest running campaign in the area and although Lib Dem Councillor Golton is fully aware of the campaign having been 'involved' in the early years, the Lib Dems have done nothing to 'tackle' the speeding we have campaigned about for 13 years, and Councillor Golton hasn't responded to email correspondence with LAWRRAG for a number of years, let alone offered any support.

Staggering Hypocrisy from Labour councillor!

LAWRRAG is a non-political group and at various stages during the past 13 years  representatives from each of the three main political parties have been involved, each always being quick to blame the 'opposition' for their lack of any action. A typical example of this can be seen below 'Lib Dems - Soft on Speeding', put out by Karen Bruce, then a Labour Party campaigner.  Given that since this first appeared we have a Labour led council, and that two out of the three Ward councillors are Labour members this really does take the biscuit!

Traffic Monitoring November 2017 - 13th anniversary!

As a result of traffic monitoring cables having been installed across the carriageway in various locations along the A639 and A642, this month, the following email has been sent to the Ward councillors, copied to our MP, and the Highways representative from Leeds City Council:   

Councillors

With reference to the traffic monitoring (cables across the carriageway) taking place on the A639 it has been pointed out that yet again the siting of the monitoring equipment on Leeds Hill is not in the optimum location and if the monitoring is for speed measurement, then the results will not be truly representative of the traffic speeds reached along Leeds Hill, and will show lower maximum speeds.  To record the speeds that are being reached the monitoring equipment should be closer to the middle of this stretch of road, as has been proven in the past.

NO action being taken about traffic speeds along the A639/A642

At a recent meeting (7 Feb.2017) with two of the local councillors, and representatives from Leeds City Council Highways Department, and the Police, it was confirmed that the Council was unable to do anything further in connection with traffic speeds, and that West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership was responsible for the introduction of cameras, fixed and mobile:

What are the criteria for getting new cameras installed in West Yorkshire?

These have changed over the years but since April 2009 we have been working to the following conditions based on the number of accidents where someone is Killed or Seriously Injured (KSI) and a points system where each KSI accident scores 5 points and slight injury accidents score 1. Fixed camera lengths automatically qualify for mobile enforcement as well and both can be used together.