Petition

Please sign the petition.

5,000 cars, lorries and buses ply through Inveresk Road/Dalrymple Loan every day.
10,000 new houses will be built in the next ten years.
The traffic will only get worse.
The council are being negligent in their duty to protect pedestrians and residents from the
danger, noise and pollution.
There are two schools straddling this road.
There are no safety features for pedestrians along any part of Inveresk Road/Dalrymple Loan. None.
The pavements are narrow and convoluted (article coming) as the traffic comes thick and fast.
It took a tragedy for the west part of the Inveresk Road to be closed and made safe.
I shudder to think what the council's price will be to make the whole road safe.
We have to do this ourselves.

You can access the petition through this site here

 http://www.invereskroad.co.uk/

or directly through the East Lothian Council website here

https://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/forms/form/198/inveresk_road

It is free for any to sign whether young or old.
You don't necessarily have to be a resident of Inveresk Road to sign: it is open to all.
All that is required is your name and postcode.

Thank you.

Traffic Statistics for Inveresk Road

There is a site freely available to the public for information concerning traffic flows through certain streets.
I've spent the evening delving deep into this useful site published by
the Department of Transport

http://www.dft.gov.uk/traffic-counts/cp.php?la=East+Lothian 

and I've managed to extract some interesting datasets for the Musselburgh area.
Here is a pdf explaining the datasets for those who wish to dive in:

http://data.dft.gov.uk/gb-traffic-matrix/all-traffic-data-metadata.pdf

Data Collection Points

 1  Inveresk Road

Here is the average daily flow data for Inveresk Road from 2000 until 2013.

The principal figure that stands out is the extent to which bicycle use has plummeted in the years 2000 to 2013 with a particularly large drop in 2007 as vehicle use reached its peak.
The large number of buses and coaches can be attributed to the many minibuses and the occasional
LRT bus either seeking a short cut or just lost.
HGV use of Inveresk Road has almost halved in the 2000 to 2013 period from 103 to 66.
This is still 66 too many.
Car numbers peaked in 2007 with 5422 cars per day but the overall trend is still up from the 2000 levels.

2  Inveresk Village

 

This extract shows a similar reduction in bicycle use in 2007 compared to the previous year as traffic levels peaked in the mid 2000's.

The data is similar to Inveresk Road with traffic levels peaking around 2007 but with an overall year on year increase from 2000 to 2013.

3  Racecourse

Traffic levels are almost double that of Inveresk Road as can be expected for the main route into Musselburgh for commuters from the coast. Curiously the overall daily traffic numbers have reduced slightly from 2000 to 2013.

I'm not sure if the huge increases and reductions in bicycle numbers in all the datasets can be attributed to cycle clubs changing their routes for variety or to avoid the ever busier roads.

4  Brunton Hall

This data shows an overall decrease in daily vehicle usage of the North High Street by over 1,600 from 2000 to 2103 with a large increase in cycle users from 2007 to 2013.

5  Edinburgh Road

A significant number of bicycles use this stretch of the road just prior to the Brunstane Burn with a small decrease in traffic levels from 2000 to 2013.

6  The Mall

The presence of Tescos on the Mall accounts for a large amount of traffic but there is no breakdown in the data for this. Cycle use has increased significantly with the opening of the larger store although car and taxi numbers have remained similar to numbers for the smaller store.