Cheshire East Council has confirmed that despite delays, work to reinstate the speed bumps on Oak Lane will go ahead.
Oak Lane residents received a letter on August 12th stating that traffic calming measures, which were removed nearly two years ago when the road was resurfaced, would be reinstated that week.
However, much to the annoyance of many local residents the work was put on hold - despite the fact a consultation, that took place after the removal of the speed bumps, revealed that a majority of residents were in favour of the traffic calming measures.
A spokesperson for Cheshire East Council said: "Cheshire East Council listens to local views and is committed to putting 'residents first' in all it does.
"Where a road is to be resurfaced that contains road humps, the Council's policy is for local residents, emergency services and other interested bodies to be have the opportunity to give their views as to whether the humps should be permanently removed.
"This consultation for Oak Lane took place in October, 2012. The Council's policy is clear that the traffic calming features should only be considered to be removed should the majority of the responses support their removal - and in this case, there was not such a majority.
"The results were submitted to the Wilmslow Local Area Partnership highways sub group on November 22, where local councillors agreed that the humps should be reinstated, based upon the results of the consultation and policy.
"Shortly after this consultation took place the Council embarked on a £25m road resurfacing programme. Unfortunately, due to this exceptionally large programme, the completion of Oak Lane has been delayed.
"It was proposed to carry out the works last month. However, following inquiries from local residents a decision was made to review the background to the original decision and place the works on hold. This too generated much correspondence from local residents both for and against the reinstatement of the humps. The conclusion of this review is that the original decision was correct and in accordance with Council policy.
"Following this review, it is now proposed to proceed with the installation of the road humps."
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What policy is that then - be massively inefficient, waste lots of money and do what you want on a whim. But never mind, just claim its "policy" and add a sprinkling of "its for the environment" and that should stop anyone from asking any awkward questions.
Still, how exactly is creating, moving and heating tons of the petroleum based asphalt to create these road humps "good for the environment". It will create far more C02 than it will ever save and as no accidents have been caused on this road, it wont protect anyone either.
It will waste £thousands though but when did that ever seem to matter.
Once again another epic fail from Cheshire East.
By the way does anyone know what type of traffic calming measures will be put in place, it's nice of the council to inform the residents that they are going ahead with this - not!