The whole of Elm now set up for a death
With reference to the letter ‘There is going to be another death here’ from John Barnes, I fully concur with the points.
As a cyclist, heading into Elm from Elm Low Road and joining the Main Road/Fridaybridge Road (B1101), you do take your life into your own hands, especially as traffic tends to speed on the part of the road either side of this junction.
Cambs Highways have installed speed bumps along Main Road/Fridaybridge Road, from just where the cemetery is on the corner, and near the school, and almost up to Elm Low Road, but two others really need to be installed either side of the junction possibly.
Another issue is the amount of traffic through the village. Despite Elm Parish Council, and Fenland District Council declining planning permission, only for it to be overturned by a nameless civil servant (an oxymoron ) from Bristol, 30 houses are being built next to Henry Warby Avenue.
This has caused construction traffic, including large lorries, appearing in the village, using the Fridaybridge Road (and trying to weave in and out of parked cars on Henry Warby Avenue) .
Friday Bridge and Elm will soon be joined as along the B1101, nearly every single piece of land has become building plots, again with its own construction traffic, service providers etc. Our green and pleasant land is disappearing.
Also, despite there being signs on Gosmoor Lane, stating no HGVs, a road which links the B1101 and the A1101 (the Downham Road) at Collett’s Bridge, it is used as a short cut by lorries and larger farm machinery regularly.
It is not just at the Elm Low junction that there may be a death, but throughout the village, with the increased traffic as a result of a proliferation of overzealous house building.
Veronica Trubshaw
Elm