Camphill Road

Local residents have highlighted concern about traffic movements on Camphill Road and have suggested possible measures to address it, including the possibility of making part of it one way. I raised these with the council's head of transportation and I have copied his response to me below:

’A traffic survey was undertaken last year on Camphill Road (near Dick St) which is quite recent and it recorded average speeds of approximately 21mph.  This indicates that there is very little evidence of speeding in this area.  

I have also recently investigated injury accidents on Camphill Road and in the last 3 years there has been no injury accidents and therefore this suggests that Camphill Road does not represent a high road safety concern.  As far as making the road one-way we looked at the traffic levels from the survey and it indicates that there are only 1300 - 1400 vehicles a day on this road which is not high considering it serves a significant amount of residential properties.  The introduction of a one way system may increase speeds on Camphill road as the two way traffic flows help keep speeds low (21 mph). The impacts of a one-way road could easily be detrimental as it could shift traffic on to other roads and therefore I cannot support its introduction.

Taking on board the above I can advise that there is currently no intention to make any traffic management changes to Camphill Road.'