This meeting will consider a petition about installing traffic lights at the junction of Acacia Avenue and Egley Road in Woking.

Traffic Lights at the junction of Acacia Avenue and Egley Road

The Cabinet Member for Highways, Transport & Economic Growth will be asked to consider a petition about road safety at the junction of Acacia Avenue and Egley Road in Woking. The petition was submitted by Salvo Raia, and requests that Surrey County Council install traffic lights at the junction to improve road safety and reduce traffic speeds. The petition says

It can be extremely difficult to come out of the Barnsbury Estate in Woking due to the amount of traffic at certain times of the day especially during the school runs and work rush hour. It can be particularly dangerous especially when cars are turning into Acacia Avenue while other cars are trying to turn out onto Egley Road heading north into Woking. There are many instances of near misses, previous accidents have happened and there is a concern that a serious accident may happen sooner or later. Also, there are hardly any speed limit signs along Egley road and people exceed the 30mph limit regularly.

The report published ahead of the meeting notes that there is only one recorded accident at the junction in the last three years, although it acknowledges

our database only contains details of collisions in which an injury was sustained.

The report goes on to claim that

the primary cause of the most recent personal injury collision was the failure of the driver to cancel their indicator.

The report concludes that, due to the cost of the scheme, and the low number of accidents, there are no plans to install traffic lights at the junction.