Through traffic in Pytchley

[Hirsty]

This article was in Monday's ET......

http://www.northantset.co.uk/news/A43-roadworks-are-a-nightmare.4934815.jp

[Dolly Molly]

Well, now the village residents are the inconsiderate ones for parking outside their houses!!!  How amusing.......I think that driving through our village without due care and whipping wing mirrors off is inconsiderate!!

[featherpillow]

Welcome to the future!

I predict that traffic volumes will only increase through Pytchley as the Isham by-pass and widening of the A14 go ahead. The next few weekends will give us an idea of what it will be like.

While the article in the Evening Telegraph reported the residents concerns very well, all of the comments posted afterwards were very unsympathetic and they show every sign that Pytchley will continue to be used as a rat-run and it is very inconsiderate of us to complain.

After the weekend what a difference on Monday – the snow ensured that only a handful of cars went past my house all day, for me it was bliss.

But really nobody wants to be cut off like that. If we don’t want the village to become snarled up with traffic we need severe traffic restrictions along Isham Road and Kettering Road, encouraging traffic to use the A14 and A43 which, after all, is the route they should be using.

[featherpillow]

Another horrendous weekend of diverted traffic through the village.

If there is anybody else out there who cares about the village environment then I urge you to write to Brenda Hargeaves, as requested in October's Pytchley Parish Post, registering your concern and any ideas that you may have to reduce the through traffic. The Parish Council can't do anything if they have no feedback from the villagers.

I implore those of you who are not directly affected by the traffic, Top End, Lower End, Manor Gardens, Butchers Lane, to write also.

I hate to sound like a doomsayer but it will have a detrimental effect on the whole village if nothing is done.

Pytchley should be a desirable place to live.

[Hirsty]

I, like I dare say many other residents on the High Street, share your concerns.  There is a traffic calming measure outside the church, wherein those leaving the village have to give way to oncoming traffic.  I for one certainly feel that a similar measure should be in place at the other end of the High Street, just short of the school and the turning for Butchers Lane.  Simply put this would slow down the traffic in front of the school and indeed would prove an undoubted nuisance to those seeking to use the village as a rat run.  It is a simple fact that the High Street, by its very design, is ill equipped to deal with the volumes of traffic that it sometimes has to deal with - particularly with speeding vans and lumbering HGVs.  Its not indulgent NIMBYism on our part, but genuine and well founded concerns.  I do feel that the residents of Pytchley need to find a concerted voice on this issue.

[Dolly Molly]

I will be writing to Brenda Hargreaves over the next few days as, yet again, a car was hit whilst parked on the High Street.....I noticed that some had parked accross the road, but why should we??  I've lost count the number of times that my car has been hit...it's now starting to look as if I've been banger racing in it!!

[SteveB]

Well - did you see the 'accident' in the High Street recently? Probably not because it was after midnight, but it made quite a mess - see the link on the village website front page for pictures etc.
www.pytchley-village.co.uk . I really think the time has come to introduce more traffic calming measures.