News on Walk Cycle Live Stirling

Raploch Street Design is the first phase of the wider Walk, Cycle, Live Stirling project, and is an intensive co-design process which has engaged with the community of the Raploch area for the last 12 months to produce designs for Raploch Road and Drip Road to Forth Valley College. Since September 2018, the Street Design team have been out in the community, holding community events, leading walking audits with different vulnerable groups, and workshopping ideas with people of all ages. They have received over 600 comments on the designs and reached over 2000 people!

The final designs have been handed over to the Walk, Cycle, Live Stirling for delivery as part of the wider project, but ahead of the final designs being implemented a number of temporary interventions have been developed. Based on hundreds of comments gathered from the community, the Street Design team have identified an opportunity to trial a series of temporary interventions at the junction of Raploch Road and Huntly Crescent. The changes could start to address some of the problems the community have told them about, such as speeding traffic turning into and out of Huntly Crescent. The interventions would improve the sense of safety now, in advance of later construction work to deliver the entire Raploch Street Design project. These temporary interventions will be funded by Sustrans who have lead this project, and will be installed by Stirling Council by the end of July.

These temporary interventions are intended to;

1. Slow downvehicles as they enter and exit Huntly Crescent onto Raploch Road. This is done by putting in a rubber kerb line to tighten the bend to encourage traffic to slow down as they turn into and out of the junction. This would reduce the radii of the corner from 12m to 6m.

2. Make it easier for pedestrian and people with restricted mobility to cross Huntly Crescent by installing drop kerbs and highlighting where people regularly cross at Huntly Crescent with contrasting paint. The colour will be extend on to the pavement as thermoplastic circles to brighten up the area .

3. Refresh an existing green space.

4. Slow down vehicles travelling on Raploch Road with bolt down cycle and bus friendly speed cushions.

JH Civil Engineering Ltd. have been awarded the contract and are due to start works at the start of December. For traffic and pedestrian safety, there will be temporary traffic lights, please expect some potential delays if travelling through during construction works.