This is what you have been writing to us about this week.

Whilst recognising that we have an attractive and well maintained Peace Garden - it was always too close to the road(s) for ‘peace’.

Whether current proposals to increase local housing and resulting traffic, as a resident of Station Road this junction is currently high risk for pedestrians in a number of ways.

The Parade/Station Road corner has a pavement barely a yard wide, with poorly maintained hedging reducing this still further - many schoolchildren go back and forth each weekday and all pedestrians have to be wary of vehicles speeding around the corner from Station Road.

The narrowness has been exacerbated with Covid distancing - impossible to see others around the corner when approaching from either direction.

Traffic coming to the junction from the Cookham direction can easily see a fair distance to the right and, if no traffic is in view, will drive around the corner at whatever speed they are doing; sometimes well in excess of the 30mph limit (or are vans sporting large wing mirrors).

Two of the three sets of “keep left” signs were destroyed years ago - probably by the single decker buses which have too much front overhang to turn the corner at the Peace Garden side.

What is required is to move Penny’s corner a few yards down Station Road (or relocate to somewhere of “peace”), make a fuller roundabout of the junction and, in particular, have some sort of traffic calming such as a full width Speed Pillow combined with an official pedestrian crossing at the entrance of all three roads.

The pavement on the Parade/Station Road corner needs to be widened as part of the design.

One thing is certain, the local infrastructure is currently completely inadequate for current peak time traffic; it will be much more dangerous when the additional traffic starts.

John Collins, Bourne End

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