<h1>Nunnery Fields Road Safety</h1><p>You may have seen an article in The Canterbury Times about the dangerous road crossing at the bottom of Nunnery Fields - this is where it joins with Old Dover Road.</p><div><div id="petition_text"><p>Petition: <a href="../../../petitions/crossing-at-nunnery-fields" rel="nofollow">www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/nunnery-fields-road-safety</a></p><p>Please sign and support this petition in order to make safe this dangerous road crossing in South Canterbury. This is the point where Nunnery Fields meets Old Dover Rd. As a permanent wheelchair user, it is terrifying for me, my children and my carers to even get to Canterbury Health Centre. Canterbury City Council when contacted, have told me it would need evidence of someone being knocked down before any traffic restrictions could be put in place. This is a shocking response. I have also just spoken to one of my neighbours, who was hit crossing the road there five years ago, when she was 14. There are traffic lights at the crossing of Nunnery Fields where it meets Old Dover Rd BUT there is no pedestrian crossing. When the traffic lights turn to red at any point in the crossroads, which prevents traffic moving back and forth through Nunnery Fields, they turn to green somewhere else. Often actually behind you. There is no safe time to cross. This is especially true when there are the many buses and ambulances which as a pedestrian you can't see around. The Council needs to set up a pedestrian crossing. This is seconded by many people using the crossing, including the vicar at St Mary Bredin's church, the Rev Barney de Berry. St Mary Bredin's is the church at the corner between Nunnery Fields and Old Dover Road.</p><p> We all need to change things for 2016!</p><p>Isabella Devani</p></div></div>
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