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over 2 yrs ago

0

Do you agree we should fur­ther explore the oppor­tun­ity for a sep­ar­ate footbridge?

5

Please explain your answer

Yes the bridge is really nar­row and if 2 cars are on the bridge there is very little room for ped­es­tri­ans espe­cially if walk­ing a dog, push­ing a pram etc.

Please provide com­ments on the oth­er pro­pos­als shown in the drawing

Poten­tial for ped­es­tri­an cross­ing at the junc­tion is not the best idea, very lim­ited line of site when driv­ing over the bridge towards the shop and you will be on the cross­ing before you realise.

Instead of nar­row­ing the road on dell road to cre­ate an exten­ded path from the river walk could some of the grass not be removed. You would still have plenty of room for art install­a­tion, info boards etc. There is really lim­ited space when com­ing down dell road espe­cially when cars are parked on the left hand side next to the pave­ment and when there are events on at the hall. Dur­ing the busy tour­ist sea­sons there is also a lot of people park around the hall to get access to all of our lovely walks.

This area of the vil­lage is very busy with traffic and loos­ing any road is not a very prac­tic­al or safe option.

What green­spaces / pub­lic realm improve­ments could be made in this area?

Feel we have some really good green spaces in this area, you have the river­side walk and all of the walks that lead off of the foot­ball pitch / play area. Very lucky to have the space we have in the village.

Would like to see more park­ing / foot­path pro­vi­sion on sta­tion road espe­cially near the Spey­side way. This area can be a real bottle neck due to the pop­ular­ity of the lovely busi­nesses we have here and there is no foot­paths lead­ing up to the Butchers and Nethy House. Car park could be improved and sig­nage fixed here as it has fallen down.

Do you agree that an improved cross­ing for ped­es­tri­ans should be provided at this location?

4

What cross­ing type(s) do you believe are most appro­pri­ate, con­sid­er­ing the users and the traffic here?

• Raised table (see draw­ing below) • Dropped kerbs only

Please explain your answer

I feel raised cross­ings would slow traffic down. I fol­low a lot of traffic on my way home down from the Dor­back road (espe­cially tour­ists) who do not always stop at this junc­tion just shoot straight across.

Would you sup­port marked cycle lanes here?

Unsure

Why (not)?

Would prefer to see traffic slowed down at this junc­tion and this would make people more aware.

What else should we con­sider here?

The new grass buil­dout when you turn left towards the bot­tom of the vil­lage will make this a very tight junc­tion. I use this reg­u­larly and when you meet a vehicle here there is not a lot of room, build­ing this out will push traffic more towards each oth­er or the pave­ment which would defeat the purpose.

Do you agree with the pro­posed upgrades as shown in the drawing?

5

Please explain your answer

Agree with these upgrade, would make people more aware and espe­cially when chil­dren are trav­el­ling to and from school along the path.

What else should we con­sider here?

Only thing to con­sider is when people are trav­el­ling towards the cres­cent the first entrance can be quite blind to this as there is always cars parked on the corner push­ing you over onto the wrong side of the road so there would need to be plenty of sig­nage and light­ing here espe­cially for the winter.

Do you agree that a foot­path should be provided along the B970?

5

Please explain your answer

Would love to see a path and cross­ings here, would make it a lot safer and more people could use as it would link up with all dif­fer­ent paths

Do you agree that this cross­ing should be made safer?

5

What cross­ing type do you believe is most appro­pri­ate, con­sid­er­ing the users and the traffic here?

Form­al cross­ing — zebra

What else should we con­sider here?

Entrance for a cross­ing has been made here but if you do not know the area you would not be aware there are kids cross­ing. Bet­ter sig­nage and light­ing here would also help espe­cially for the winter

Final thoughts

Over all really pos­it­ive but would like to see parts of the roads retained and not giv­en over to paths.

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over 2 yrs ago

0

Do you agree we should fur­ther explore the oppor­tun­ity for a sep­ar­ate footbridge?

5

Do you agree that an improved cross­ing for ped­es­tri­ans should be provided at this location?

2

Do you agree with the pro­posed upgrades as shown in the drawing?

2

Do you agree that a foot­path should be provided along the B970?

4

Do you agree that this cross­ing should be made safer?

3

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over 2 yrs ago

0

Do you agree we should fur­ther explore the oppor­tun­ity for a sep­ar­ate footbridge?

3

Please explain your answer

the cur­rent bridge is haz­ard­ous at times even for passing vehicles and always a con­cern for ped­es­tri­ans and bikes. Ped­es­tri­an meas­ures at either side would be doubly valu­able if they also served to reduce vehicle speed / increase driver cau­tion approach­ing the bridge. I would sug­gest bikes safer kept on a calmed road bridge. Ped­es­tri­ans can then more safely linger on the foot­bridge, to look at the river, the wild­life, the old stone bridge etc

Please provide com­ments on the oth­er pro­pos­als shown in the drawing

I’m not con­vinced that a bridge need be so big — 3m width is simply a default fig­ure in cur­rent traffic plan­ning. A light­er touch say 1.8m clear would serve ped­es­tri­an needs per­fectly well and the exist­ing envir­on­ment bet­ter. People like ​“little” bridges, they are fun to use and in this loc­a­tion would provide a del­ic­ate foil to the big old stone bridge.

What green­spaces / pub­lic realm improve­ments could be made in this area?

Option A gives more space to do this

Do you agree that an improved cross­ing for ped­es­tri­ans should be provided at this location?

2

What cross­ing type(s) do you believe are most appro­pri­ate, con­sid­er­ing the users and the traffic here?

• Con­tinu­ous foot­way along pri­or­ity road (across side roads)

Would you sup­port marked cycle lanes here?

No

Why (not)?

Based on many years of urb­an cyc­ling I don’t think frag­men­ted cycle lanes are gen­er­ally very help­ful. When they pop up out of nowhere in a more rur­al / sub­urb­an con­text they are even more a sur­prise to the car driver who has then driv­en past by the time they have thought to act upon them

What else should we con­sider here?

just slow everything down and sub­or­din­ate cars to ped­es­tri­ans and bikes. Pri­or­ity No1 are the primary school kids on foot every­one else is grown up enough to take care and wait.

Do you agree with the pro­posed upgrades as shown in the drawing?

5

Do you agree that a foot­path should be provided along the B970?

3

Please explain your answer

beware that big wide con­ven­tion­al foot­paths with kerbs can tend increase car speeds and the safety provided by a 100mm con­crete kerb is a bit of an illu­sion. Provide mixed sur­faces and every­one stays more awake and takes more care.

Do you agree that this cross­ing should be made safer?

3

Final thoughts

although not as press­ing a prob­lem as the bridge over the Nethy, the bridge over the Duack, per­haps 250m to the west on the same road, is cur­rently very dan­ger­ous for ped­es­tri­ans and I’m dis­ap­poin­ted not to see it even get a men­tion here. A smal­ler but sig­ni­fic­ant num­ber of Nethy res­id­ents do live on the oth­er side of this bridge and the most nat­ur­al way to the vil­lage facil­it­ies is to walk. All paths cur­rently ter­min­ate just short of the bridge, it is very poorly lit and a big pro­por­tion of motor­ised traffic com­ing from Boat is unfor­tu­nately still at or above the speed lim­it at this point. At a min­im­um, bet­ter light­ing and some traffic calm­ing should be con­sidered for this location.

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over 2 yrs ago

0

Do you agree we should fur­ther explore the oppor­tun­ity for a sep­ar­ate footbridge?

5

Please explain your answer

The mix of traffic using the road bridge is cur­rently dangerous.

Please provide com­ments on the oth­er pro­pos­als shown in the drawing

The ped­es­tri­an cross­ing is too close to the junc­tion and may in itself cause a haz­ard as traffic becomes backed up across the bridge in the dir­ec­tion of

Nethy House.

Do you agree that an improved cross­ing for ped­es­tri­ans should be provided at this location?

4

What cross­ing type(s) do you believe are most appro­pri­ate, con­sid­er­ing the users and the traffic here?

• Raised table (see draw­ing below)

Please explain your answer

The raise table will reduce the speed of traffic in all directions.

Would you sup­port marked cycle lanes here?

No

Why (not)?

Don’t believe they are necessary.

Do you agree with the pro­posed upgrades as shown in the drawing?

4

Do you agree that a foot­path should be provided along the B970?

4

Please explain your answer

Traffic moves too quickly along the sec­tion of road from the bridge, past Nethy House and the Hotel caus­ing a haz­ard to ped­es­tri­ans and cyc­lists. I woulk to see traffic calm­ing meas­ures in this area.

Do you agree that this cross­ing should be made safer?

4

What cross­ing type do you believe is most appro­pri­ate, con­sid­er­ing the users and the traffic here?

Raised cross­ing

What else should we con­sider here?

Redu­cing the lim­it to 20mph

Final thoughts

Really pleased to see the width of pave­ments tak­ing into con­sid­er­a­tion wheel­chair users and cyclists.

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over 2 yrs ago

0

Do you agree we should fur­ther explore the oppor­tun­ity for a sep­ar­ate footbridge?

5

Please provide com­ments on the oth­er pro­pos­als shown in the drawing

The widen of the foot­way at nethy house may make it more dif­fi­cult for lar­ger vehicles/​farm vehicles to turn out of the junc­tion. This road is needed to access the sewage plant and farms and shops, so can­not be lim­ited to cars only.

Do you agree that an improved cross­ing for ped­es­tri­ans should be provided at this location?

4

What cross­ing type(s) do you believe are most appro­pri­ate, con­sid­er­ing the users and the traffic here?

• Raised crossing

Would you sup­port marked cycle lanes here?

No

Why (not)?

Yet to be con­vinced of the bene­fit for such a short sec­tion of road

Do you agree with the pro­posed upgrades as shown in the drawing?

2

Please explain your answer

I use the path every day and very rarely meet someone com­ing the oth­er way. Not a good use of money. A cross­ing at each end makes more sense.

Do you agree that a foot­path should be provided along the B970?

4

Do you agree that this cross­ing should be made safer?

4

What cross­ing type do you believe is most appro­pri­ate, con­sid­er­ing the users and the traffic here?

Form­al cross­ing — zebra

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over 2 yrs ago

0

Do you agree we should fur­ther explore the oppor­tun­ity for a sep­ar­ate footbridge?

4

Do you agree that an improved cross­ing for ped­es­tri­ans should be provided at this location?

5

What cross­ing type(s) do you believe are most appro­pri­ate, con­sid­er­ing the users and the traffic here?

• Form­al cross­ings — zebra

Would you sup­port marked cycle lanes here?

Yes

Do you agree with the pro­posed upgrades as shown in the drawing?

5

Do you agree that a foot­path should be provided along the B970?

4

Do you agree that this cross­ing should be made safer?

5

What cross­ing type do you believe is most appro­pri­ate, con­sid­er­ing the users and the traffic here?

Form­al cross­ing — zebra

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