It’s been nearly four years since I started this petition and in that time, the status quo on Yardley Wood Rd remains the same. Speeding and anti-social driving, inadequate safe crossing places and rampant red light jumping at the crossroads with Wake Green Rd. It’s a colossal failure that a council that declared a ‘Road Safety Emergency’ last year appears to have forgotten what an emergency means and needs.

So, with the local election coming this Thursday, you might want to find out where the various parties standing in the election pitch themselves on road safety. Handily, Better Streets for Birmingham, a volunteer-led campaign group has helpfully collated what we know from the various party manifestos and you can view it here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/12lrCDbP0q8A8TePtqm6iV7IvaMP1JD5Je0_hf6vv9SM/edit?usp=sharing

In further news, for the last few months traffic monitoring equipment has been installed on Yardley Wood Rd and you can view both live and historic data on things like traffic volumes and types via this link. It’s certainly an eye opener:

https://telraam.net/en/location/9000009831

If you’re local and have an interest in issues affecting Yardley Wood Rd, then please do drop me a message.