Petition text
Pedestrian safety on Morton Way
Campaign created by Joan Bushill
We call on Enfield Council to install a pedestrian crossing on Morton Way between Brycedale Crescent and Morton Crescent, close to the junction with Morton Crescent. Also to improve the safety for pedestrians on Morton Way close to the Waterfall Road roundabout.
Why is this important?
Traffic on Morton Way is becoming intolerable. At busy pedestrian junctions, none of which have any safety aids, such as pedestrian crossings, you take your life on hands to get across. That is for young able bodied pedestrians. Those of us not quite so mobile have very great difficulty crossing.
It cannot be right that Barnet on a similar stretch of road have no fewer than four crossings.My husband, Chris Bushill, wrote to Enfield Council about Morton Way. Among other things, he asked how it could be justified that there were no pedestrian crossings on Morton Way when the continuation of the road, Hampden Way in Barnet, has 4 pedestrian crossings on a similar stretch of road. A reply has been received over a month later giving no hope of any action. We started to campaign in 2021, doing a series of traffic counts and writing to the council. All to no avail. Traffic is now much worse, especially at peak times which are, of course, peak times for pedestrians as well. This leads me to think extra pressure needs to be applied, hence this petition.
Please support this petition. Note to be a valid signatory a home, work or study address with postcode in the London Borough of Enfield must be provided. It is planned to deliver the petition early in the New Year.
How it will be delivered
On line to Enfield Council.
