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Speeding lorries on Gap road
Reported via desktop in the Roads/highways category anonymously at 15:58, Thu 5 August 2021
Sent to Merton Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 2916930.
Hi, I am a resident of Gap road Wimbledon.( over 10 years) Over the last few years the amount of skip lorries and other large lorries using my road has increased considerably . The speeds of these lorries is way beyond the speed limit( a new limit of 20mph was imposed recently) This has made no difference at all, When there is no traffic on the road the lorries thunder down and drive straight into the speed humps. This creates terribly loud booming and crashing sounds, also vibrations that shake the nearby buildings. This activity starts at around 5am. I have also personally seen very near misses where pedestrians have gone to cross the road at the crossing points and totally misjudged the fast speeds of the lorries thinking they will be slowing down but they are not! I totally understand that living on a busy road you will get traffic noise but this is far beyond expectable. Recently parking restrictions have been put in place for residents only. This has only increased the speeds as now there are less cars parked on the road which gives more space for the lorries to go faster!
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State changed to: Closed
Posted by Merton Council at 14:31, Fri 2 September 2022
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