Volunteers Needed: Vehicle Speed Reduction on Long Leys Road

LLRA is appealing for volunteers from the Long Leys community to help with Community Speed Watch activity, to help reduce the amount of speeding vehicles on Long Leys Road. Volunteering will involve a couple of hours per month during daylight hours. Community Speed Watch is done in collaboration with Lincolnshire Police and Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership. If you wish to find out more about volunteering then please email Jackie Ward: jackie.ward@long-leys.org  for details.

Background

Speeding traffic on Long Leys Road was one of the top travel-related items raised in the 2024 Long Leys Neighbourhood survey. LLRA has been implementing some of the easily actionable suggestions from the survey (see below). Others, such as traffic calming, will require significant support from the Lincolnshire County Council Highways team and will be included in the 20-year Neighbourhood Plan.

LLRA short term actions include:

• An additional Speed Indicator Device (SID) has been purchased and installed by Whittons Park (to slow traffic entering Long Leys from Yarborough Road).
• The original mobile Speed Indicator Device has been upgraded to be solar-powered, allowing continuous use by the former Curtis bakery (inbound Lincoln direction).
• Recruiting volunteers for regular Community Speed Watch sessions at key points on Long Leys Road.
• Liaison with the local policing team to encourage a greater level of police speed enforcement activity on Long Leys Road.

How You Can Help

• Please watch your speed, both on Long Leys Road and side roads.
• If you want to help tackle the issue of vehicles being driven at excessive speed, then consider volunteering for Long Leys Community Speed Watch activity. This is done in collaboration with Lincolnshire Police. If you wish to volunteer then please email Jackie Ward: jackie.ward@long-leys.org  for more details.

What Difference Does a SID Make?

Now there are SIDs permanently operational at three different points in Long Leys, a clearer picture can be built up over the next 12 months. What is known now is that there are 1.4 million vehicle movements a year past the Speed Indicator Device at the cemetery (570,000 inbound Lincoln and 860,000 outbound Lincoln). Since the SID was installed there, the number of inbound Lincoln vehicles speeding has fallen by 25%. That’s around 40,000 more vehicles obeying the 30mph speed limit each year. It would be helpful to establish what further difference Community Speed Watch activity could make.