REGARDING your recent comprehensive article in 'The Voice' featuring the excessive speeding on William Hosking Road, (A3058) Nansledan, I would like to add the following comments.

My wife and I live on William Hosking Road, and have done so since 2016, and it didn't take long for us to realise that there was, and still is, a serious problem with speeding traffic in fact if anything it has become even worse.

Despite raising our concerns over the intervening period with a variety of people including local and county councillors, our current MP Steve Double, and the relevant personnel at Cornwall Council, the previous local police Chief Constable Dave Meredith, and senior Duchy officials, our concerns until recently have gone unheeded, in truth being largely fobbed off. In reality it would appear that someone has to literally get killed before there would be some positive action leading to the installation of a permanent APNR speed camera on the road. 

But thanks to the robust lobbying actions of another local resident, Charlie Hester, we were eventually promised a speed awareness sign, and this finally gave us some proof positive of what we have been saying in the shape of a moronic 73mph speeder recorded approaching the 30mph zone outside of the new school Skol Nansledan. 

Unfortunately, however, in the meantime the speed sign has disappeared from its location, so either it was vandalised, or repositioned somewhere else in the town, which is unfortunate especially as two of the other speed awareness signs are ludicrously located at sites on Tower Road and Treloggan Road where it is almost impossible to drive at 20mph at any time of day or night.

To conclude it was a very good article and hopefully it will raise awareness across the piece and especially so with those public servants who are 'stakeholders' and who really do need to take possession of this problem rather than doing their level best to ignore it.

Craig Cable

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