York Guides

Paul Jeeves (Yorkshire Post)
ELECTRONIC monitoring devices will be placed along one of the main routes into York to collect data in a clampdown on speeding motorists.

York Council will gather information about the worst time of day for when motorists are breaking the speed limit along Hull Road after receiving a petition from 700 campaigners who live in Osbaldwick and Badger Hill.
The data from the monitoring boxes, which will be placed on lamp posts and telegraph poles along the road, will then be passed
to North Yorkshire Police so they can deploy mobile speed
patrols at the most effective times.
However, a York Council spokeswoman stressed that the information collected by the devices would not record details of individual motorists who were speeding along the dual carriageway stretch of Hull Road between Tang Hall Lane and Field Lane, which has a 40 mile an hour limit.
Coun David Wilde (Lab, Hull Road), who handed the petition to York Council in July, said: "It is a very big issue for people living on both sides of Hull Road.
"A lot of motorists see the dual carriageway as an excuse to open up the accelerator and speed.
"There are large numbers of children who cross the road to go to school, and we are concerned that we could be seeing another fatality before long."
North Yorkshire remains one of only two police forces in England and Wales which have opted against introducing fixed site speed cameras and it is understood that any speed enforcement along Hull Road in York will only take the form of mobile police patrols.
Even if the county force had adopted the use of fixed site cameras, the section of Hull Road does not meet Government criteria for the devices, which is four seriously injured casualties or fatalities in a three-year period.
Between May 1, 2002 and April 30 this year, there has been one fatality, one serious injury accident and 19 slight injuries along the road.
In a report to York Council''s planning and transport and advisory panel, road safety officer Tom Bryant said: "To address the issues in the petition, we propose to work with North Yorkshire Police and the Safer York Partnership to target this section of Hull Road with increased speed enforcement."
He added: "Monitoring of the speeding problem will ensure that this enforcement is both evidence based and targeted at those most likely to offend."
Councillors will meet tomorrow in order to discuss the report.