Posted By T. Fowler In our hospital grounds we have a narrow peripheral road, which, because of the need for parking on it and the resultant reduction in width, has been converted into a one-way system. This may have well contributed to traffic speeds increasing and we are now faced with looking for speed reduction measures. I don't think speed bumps are the answer, even small ones would be opposed by emergency organisations. I see it more as a problem to which there is no single 'solution' and one where a combination of improvement measures may be necessary. Any ideas?

Posted By John Webster This may at first seem heretical, but revert to 2 way traffic. Our hospital has access roads, with no pavements, on which we have also had to allow parking. Only we have no scope for one way systems. Create passing places between the parking spaces at regular intervals, mark the passing areas with yellow diamond hatching and strictly enforce no parking in the marked zones (using tow-away or clamping if necessary). There's nothing like something coming the other way to slow traffic down! One of our local towns has an ancient narrow winding main street. It is shared by all types of vehicles and pedestrians, and parking is permitted virtually wherever the street is more than one vehicle wide! It cannot be pedestrianised or else half the town would have no vehicular access. Nobody wants it to be made one-way, as it could be, because they know that traffic speed would increase with potentially disasterous results for pedestrians (it would be open season for baby buggies).

Posted By jason telford put a couple of chicane's nearly opposite each other this will slow them down

Posted By T. Fowler Thanks everyone No easy answer is there? but lessons! One way systems encourage speed, being one. In our case speed bumps on the road next to the hospital have worked in that speed is reduced there. Unfortunately traffic now takes the alternative, one-way route through our hospital - much faster. So actions taken beyond our control have had their effect on us. We only have three years left on site so can't justify a great deal of expense. We'll be looking to minimise the risks at the most likely points - there are two or three hot spots. Thanks again Tony