MP Steve Barclay
MP Steve Barclay picks up road safety award from Brake and Direct Line for Fen campaigns
Thursday, May 17, 2012
5:28 PM
NORTH East Cambs MP Steve Barclay has been awarded a Road Safety Parliamentarian of the Month Award.
He’s been given it by national charity Brake and Direct Line for his successful campaign to reactivate a speed camera and install signs to prevent further casualties on a stretch of the A47.
“Steve has also secured progress on a second campaign to install a barrier between a waterway and stretch of road in his constituency where a young girl was killed,” said a Brake spokesman.
He said in April 2011, after nine crashes in three years and five deaths in six years, the MP launched a campaign with local residents and Councillor John Fish calling for a speed camera to be reactivated and warning signs installed.
“The Highways Agency agreed to install the signs, but said the £30,000 cost would have to be met by the parish council because the number of crashes on the road did not meet their stipulated level.
“At this point they declined to switch the speed camera back on.
Steve then wrote to road safety minister Mike Penning MP to say how disappointed he was that the Highways Agency had not agreed to pay for the signs or reactive the camera.
The MP was also praised by Brake for getting road safety minister Mike Penning to visit the waterway adjacent to Bedlam Bridge near to where 9 year old Charlotte Walker was tragically killed.
Mr Barclay said he was “honoured” to receive the award and said it was pleasing to see the community working together to have a minister act on their concerns.
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1 comments
This award is thoroughly well deserved, and should be a source of pride for all in Fenland. Steve Barclay's commitment to helping improve road safety in Fenland became clear from the time he was selected as a candidate for this constituency, and in the two years since he became our MP, he has continued to show his determination and ability to 'go the extra mile' and get things done that really matter to the local community, helping make our roads safer, and tackling many other issues besides. Steve's tenacity in overcoming bureaucratic obstacles to progress has been crucial and, thankfully, has increasingly come to be mirrored by greater flexibility and sensitivity to local road safety concerns shown by key Officers and Members at County and District Council level. The interest and support Steve has secured from Roads Minister, Mike Penning MP, in Fenland road safety issues, has been a vital asset, and Mike Penning's personal appreciation of the importance of the progress we are trying to achieve in Fenland, as a former Fire-fighter, has undoubtedly added weight to the backing he has given Steve and the local community's road safety aspirations. Credit should also go to Brake and Directline, both organisations with a national profile, and renown for their dedication to road safety improvement, for the support they have shown for what is being achieved here in the Fens.
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Graham Chappell
Saturday, May 19, 2012