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Baseline data collected prior to installation of planters

  Baseline Data
Road Name Speed - mph
(direction)
No. of cars in a
1-hour period
  N/E S/W Total Time
Amberley Road 26.2 26.3 402 8am
Bourne Avenue 33.7 32.6 272 8am
Burford Gardens 30.1 28.7 106 4pm
Cannon Road        
Caversham Avenue 29 31 183 8am
Conway Road 25.7 25.3 88 8am
Cranley Gardens 30.4 27.9 75 1pm
Derwent Road 27.8 30.3 100 12pm
Devonshire Road 30   117 6pm
Fox Lane 28.9 24.5 548 8am
Greenway 30.4 29 154 8am
Grovelands Road 29.5 29.6 140 4pm
Harlech Road 27.7 27.7 66 3pm
Lakeside Road 27.5 32.2 117 12pm
Meadway 29.7 29.6 419 8am
Oakfield Road 18.8 17.8 46 12pm
Old Park Road 29.3 26.2 303 8am
Parkway 26.2 24.6 59 8am
Selborne Road 25.5 23.8 249 8am
St George’s Road 29.4 30 153 8am
The Mall 20.5 20.2 368 4pm
The Ridgeway 15.9 19 31 9am
Ulleswater Road 30.3 30.5 79 8am

Data taken from a PDF document supplied by Enfield Council. Colour coding has been added by Better Streets for Enfield to highlight the worst streets for traffic volumes and typical speeds.
Key: Green – good for all-age walking, cycling and play; Amber – will discourage some from walking or cycling; Red – a hostile, unhealthy street.

The explanatory text accompanying the data is shown below:

The table below provides the baseline data for the Fox Lane monitoring of the planters trial.

Speed Data: People will drive their cars at varying speeds along residential roads, some thoughtful to their surroundings and others less so. When looking at speed data for particular roads, we need to have a system to understand what the typical speed might be. Therefore, the speeds shown in the table are what are referred to as the ‘85th percentile speed’. This is used nationally to determine the effectiveness of the speed limit and is the speed at whichthe data shows 85% of vehicles are travelling at or below. Thisdoes leave a minority that will be driving their cars in excess of the speeds shown. These results are taken from data typically gathered over a 7-day period, collecting information 24 hours a day.

Volume Data: We have reviewed the data over the period of collection and for each road selected the hour of the day which has the highest volume of traffic (i.e. the worst hour). This volume data includes vehicles travelling in either direction.