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00:00Over quite a long period of time the traffic up here mostly behaves itself
00:09but there are a few individuals that will go through here at a ridiculous
00:15speed and I mean ridiculous. I am spotting red light jumpers on the
00:21junction just behind us where we're standing because they know there's a
00:26brief delay between the light changes and that's all very well
00:32unless you're a pedestrian crossing the road because if you are and you're
00:37expecting the traffic to have stopped that can be very dangerous and we've got
00:42we have two pedestrian lights here at the junction across the main road but no
00:49pedestrian lights crossing either the Minster Road or St Mildred's Avenue. We
00:55don't know the details of what happened you know it seems quite likely that it
00:59simply was a horrible accident. Yes it did focus my attention on it because
01:03I've been waiting for you know a serious accident down here and we had one and I
01:09thought I'll post this you know I'll put this petition together. You know people
01:14people do take the mickey down here and you know a regular incident
01:21is here when when the road isn't coned off is as soon as those lights change
01:26people will race up the inside and further down there are cars parked and
01:34instead of pulling out in good time what you'll regularly see is people racing
01:41right up to where the cars are parked and then forcing their way into the main
01:45traffic so you know where I live you'll regularly hear horns going as people do
01:52that and it's it's it's just bad driving simple as that. The introduction of
02:00average speed cameras on either side of the light so in that 40 miles an hour
02:04stretch you're not monitored at one point I mean you watch the cars up there
02:09they will slow down for the speed camera and then speed up again with it with an
02:14average speed camera you can't do that you've got to obey the limit all the way
02:18through so average speed that side average speed this side red light
02:24cameras to stop the jumpers and really as an additional safety thing the
02:32introduction of pedestrian lights on both the Minster Road and on St Mildred's
02:37Road which are absent at the moment so school children have to
02:43cross that those two roads and pretty much dodge the traffic it's not easy