A family of two disabled children could have a reprieve in their campaign to curb speeding at their front door.
Two years ago, councillors rejected plans to introduce traffic calming measures on Robbie’s Road in Fraserburgh at the request of officers.
They will now decide on Tuesday if three rows of additional speed bumps should be built in the 20mph street.
In his report to go before councillors, director of infrastructure services Stephen Archer said the measures would provide a level of safety “consistent” throughout the area.
“These measures will join up with existing traffic calming measures on Robbie’s Road, providing a consistent level of traffic calming throughout the development,” he said.
The measures would enclose the suburb, which already has speed bumps on some of its streets, leading towards Boothby Road – a road commonly referred to as a bypass by locals.
But the town’s community safety group believe that the money spent to add more speed bumps would be better spent elsewhere and have called for Boothby Road’s 40mph speed limit to be reduced instead.
In a letter to the council, the vice-chairwoman of the group, Mary Melville, claimed speed bumps exposed a risk to the emergency services in attending to call-outs.
“As far as maters of safety are concerned our first priority is to ensure the ability of emergency vehicles to reach any address in the speediest time with little or no exposure of the vehicle to damage,” she said.
“It has been suggested that the money could be better invested in reducing the speed limit on Boothby Road from 40mph. The once named ‘bypass’ can no longer be judged as such since there is housing estates on each side of the road and currently planning permission has been granted for even more houses to be built. In our opinion children crossing this road with traffic at a speed
of 40mph is unsafe.”
However, one local family, who asked not to be named, is hoping that the measures bring an end to fears over their children’s safety.
“We have two disabled sons, so this is no joke to our family,” they said in their supporting letter.
“Whatever the outcome we will fight on until sensible precautions are in place.”
Last night, they declined to comment further.