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each other whilst negotiating the junction. Additionally, road humps have been implemented along the roads surrounding the adjacent residential area - on Oil Mill Road, Abingdon Road, and Woodside Avenue. Parking Much of the study area has unrestricted parking and what restrictions are in place are generally poorly signed with faded road markings, indicating a need for a review of the parking arrangements in the area. There is ‘no waiting at any time’ restrictions along both sides of Bath Street. There is also no waiting, Monday to Friday, 8am-6:30pm along much of Fisher Street. Significant on-street parking demand was only observed at White Street, on both sides of the road between Mitchell Street and Mary’s Place, and to a lesser extent on Station Road. Also, the public car park off Abingdon Road was observed to be well used. Many of the businesses within the study area currently have only limited space for parking within their premises. 6.3.2Public transport and cycle provision The study area is currently relatively well served by public transport ( see Figure 6.2) with high frequency services running along Walker Road/Station Road and White Street/Fisher Street that link the area to metro stations and the city centre. However, no services cover the area south of White Street, leaving the southern extreme of the study area around one kilometre from the nearest bus stop. Along White Street/Fisher Street, Superoute 12 offers four services an hour during the day and hourly services in the evening between Wallsend metro station and Two Ball Lonnen, via the city centre and Byker metro station. There is also an hourly daytime service between Wallsend and Central Station along this route. north-south through the study area along the alignment of a dismantled railway. This is a long-distance, coast to coast cycle route, connecting the area with Newcastle city centre and beyond. Within the study area the route has wide, tarmac surfacing in good condition and is mostly lit. The route crosses Malaya Drive, Welbeck Road, and Neptune Road at-grade. At Neptune Road a toucan crossing is provided, with tactile paving and guard-rail. Similar facilities have been removed from Malaya Drive and Welbeck Road due to vandalism, with only the tactile paving and associated road markings remaining. The cycle route is accessible from a limited number of points only. From Malaya Drive, Welbeck Road it can be accessed atgrade via gradual, sloping paths, while at White Street it is accessed via steep steps. We understand that the route is well used by both leisure and commuter cyclists. 6.3.3Accidents Accident data for the three-year period to 2004 have been obtained from the Tyne and Wear Traffic and Accident Data Unit. This indicated that there were a total of 11 accidents within the study area, none of which involved HGVs (although one record implicated a HGV as part of the cause of the accident). There was one fatal accident within the study area, at the junction of Bath Street and White Street, involving a police car in pursuit of another vehicle. A cluster of three serious accidents and one slight accident occurred at the junction of Malaya Drive and Station Road. Also, there were two slight accidents at the junction of Bath Street/Welbeck Road, and one slight accident at the junction of White Street/Wincomblee Road. ‘Superoute’ is a network of high quality bus services across the Tyne and Wear region, offering frequent, high quality services with modern buses, shelters and road improvements. Bus stops within the study area generally have a bus flag and timetable information only, with only some having shelters and none having kassel kerbing, despite being on ‘Superoutes’. Further, none of the stops have real-time information provision. An additional four services per hour run along Station Road/ Walker Road, all serving the city centre. 12 services an hour run along Bath Street (including Superoute 40) between Walker bus station or Wallsend metro station and Chapel House, via the city centre and Byker metro station. Waverdale Avenue, has six services an hour, served by Superoute 40. There are no railway lines in the vicinity of the site. However, the St James-Whitley Bay metro line runs to the north of the area, with Wallsend Station (which also serves as a bus interchange) located some 700 metres from the northern extreme of the study area. The line offers a 12 minute daytime service frequency Mondays to Fridays (10 minute on Saturdays) to the city centre. Route 72 (‘Hadrian’s Way’) of the National Cycle Network runs Fisher Street spine 34 Colin Buchanan
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