TAG Report to the Parish Council on Traffic Calming Measures for the Alkham Valley Road

With the opening of the A20 dual carriageway between Folkestone and Dover in 1991 the Alkham Valley Road, B2060, was declassified to an unclassified road, intended in the future only for local traffic use and to link Alkham village and outlying hamlets to the main East Kent road network. It was planned that the through routes from the Dover area and East Kent to the western areas of Kent were to be the A2 and A20.

The residents of Alkham having overwhelmingly expressed their concerns over the impact that traffic on the Alkham Valley Road is having on their quality of life have proposed a series of measures which they want implemented to calm traffic and improve the overall environment of their village.

The measures proposed consist of the introduction of reduced speed limits, weight restrictions on HGV’s, village gateways, road narrowing with priority flows, and a pedestrian crossing.

There is recognition that such measures will entail costs and that a contribution towards those costs will need to come from the village community. The response to such a suggestion, put to the people of Alkham via a questionnaire, was positive, demonstrating the high level of concern they have to the traffic problem and their willingness to help fund works to alleviate it.