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Broadstone Community Speed Watch Newsletter – December 2021

‘Making Broadstone safer for all road users’BCSW would like to wish all our supporters and others, a memorable Christmas, and wish you all the very best for a safe and healthy 2022.2021 has been a busy and a challenging year in many ways. Not unnaturally, we had to make sure that we maintained the safety of ourselves and others during our roadside operations by operating within the rules and…

Broadstone Community Speed Watch Newsletter -January 2022

‘Making a difference’Happy New Year one and all! Hopefully 2022 will be a year when all your New Year’s resolutions are achieved. This is certainly my resolution for Broadstone Community Speed Watch, and I pray we can recruit sufficient volunteers to reduce the workload on our already dwindling number of CSW volunteers, many of whom joined BCSW when the team was first formed in 2014. In doing…

Broadstone Community Speedwatch Newsletter – November 2021

‘Making Broadstone safer for all!’ November, mostly noted for falling temperatures, falling leaves, and the shorter hours of daylight, which when combined result in an inevitable increase in risks to all road users, and particularly those on two wheels and pedestrians. November also presents challenges to your Community Speed Watch team. This due to the natural reduction in the available hours of…

Broadstone Community Speed Watch Newsletter – October 2021

‘Safer roads, safer community, safer Broadstone!’The hours of daylight are indeed shortening as we move towards Winter, and your Broadstone Community Speed Watch team (BCSW) is having to respond to this by adjusting their operational activities to make the most of the daylight hours that remain. This is important since BCSW are only allowed to operated during daylight hours and in good…

Broadstone Community Speedwatch Newsletter – September 2021

‘Making a difference!’ There used to, and probably still is, a rule of thumb in the insurance industry which related to claims for household goods following an incident such as fire/flood etc. From memory, this rule of thumb was along the lines that 60% of claimants would not artificially inflate their claim for loss or damage, 20% would inflate their claim if they thought they can get away with…

Broadstone Community Speed watch Newsletter – August 2021

Make Broadstone a safer place to live! When writing a monthly article finding ‘new’ things to write about can be quite challenging, and this is ever more the case when most folk’s minds are focused on other things such as health, sport, holidays, Covid and much more. Challenging circumstances do, not unexpectedly, bring out the good and the bad in our complex society.  Broadstone Community Speed…

Broadstone Community Speed Watch – July 2021

‘Making a difference’ How nice it is to have summer temperatures that we might expect for this time of the year, and this certainly makes life at the roadside somewhat more pleasant when conducting roadside CSW (Community Speed watch) operations. Optimistically, the kinder weather might also provide an opportunity for anyone thinking of joining Broadstone Community Speed watch to come along to…

Stepping Out Community Tea Dances

We are thrilled to be able to announce in DAW 2021 that our eagerly awaited ‘Stepping Out Community Tea Dances’ are soon to return. Following the lifting of Covid Restrictions early summer, we are hoping to restart our Tea Dances in September. The 3rd Friday of each month from 2-4pm. Further announcements will be made nearer the time, and the events created here on our facebook page – so keep…

Broadstone Community Speed Watch – June 2021

‘Making Broadstone a safer place to live’ June, a month in which we have the summer solstice and the longest day. Hopefully it will also be the month in which we may find ourselves being carefully steered back to some form of normality – fingers crossed? Since 2014 BCSW has moved from being a fledgling organisation to one of the leading and most effective and professional CSW teams in Dorset.…

Broadstone Community Speed Watch – May 2021

‘Safer roads, safer community, safer Broadstone’ Twelve months ago, when composing the monthly BCSW article for inclusion in the May issue of the Broadstone Link magazine, I referred to the unimaginable situation we were in with regard to the Covid pandemic and our first lockdown, but I did not expect that we might still be in a similar situation twelve months on!. That said, the current…

‘Safer roads, safer community, safer Broadstone’ 20 mph Recent announcements in the media would confirm that the Department for Transport has given grants to Councils and Local Authorities to spend on projects to improve the safety of cyclists and pedestrians and to encourage people to make more use of public transport. To date, some projects, in the form of LTZs (Low traffic zones) and 20mph…

Broadstone Community Speed Watch – March 2021

‘Safer roads, safer community, safer Broadstone’ With Covid restrictions seemingly with us for some time yet, I thought It may be a good time to examine one of BCSW’s ongoing challenges, Volunteering! Why is it that some people volunteer and others don’t? Some people seem to naturally volunteer their services. Some people would like to volunteer but hesitate and add it to the ‘to do’ list. The…

Broadstone Community Speed Watch – February 2021

Safer roads, safer community, safer Broadstone It is a fact that once we get past the winter equinox the hours of daylight increase as we move towards spring and summer. However, good as that might sound, it does sometimes seem to be an eternity till the light and warmth returns to allow us to escape from winter. This may be even more relevant right now when we are contained in another seemingly…

Broadstone Community Speed Watch – January 2021

Safer roads, safer community, safer Broadstone The Broadstone Community Speed Watch Team wish all Broadstone residents a Happy New year, and pray that 2021 will be full of hope and optimism for everyone. From a Community Speed Watch perspective 2020 was challenging and difficult in that BCSW roadside operations in Dorset were suspended from March to July 2020, and again from November 2020 to…

Broadstone Community Speed Watch – December 2020

‘Safer roads, safer community, safer Broadstone’

It is difficult in these Covid dominated times to think of Christmas and the season of goodwill, and goodwill is something that certainly seems to be a scarce commodity on our evermore busy local roads. This is regularly observed on Lower Blandford road where some drivers think that they will get the speed limit changed by honking their horn at…

Broadstone Community Speed Watch – November 2020

‘Safer roads, safer community, safer Broadstone’

If you can count on one thing in this enlightened age it is that, when you make a considerable effort to provide accurate and up-to-date information to people and involve all of the key players to make sure that all the information is correct and true, the usual suspects react on Facebook and other social sites with false and misleading information!

Broadstone Community Speed Watch – October 2020

Speed Limit change – Lower Blandford road

Community Speed Watch (CSW) monitoring is being conducted again on Lower Blandford road, from the Broadway to Darby’s Corner roundabout. As the Broadstone CSW (BCSW) team Coordinator I thought it might be helpful to remind road users that in the latter part of last year the speed limit on this stretch of road was reduced from 40 mph to 30 mph. Immediately…