We chat to traders about the safety of Bilston Road which has seen a number of collisions in a matter of days.
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00:00I'm going to fire you with a question.
00:02So, I mean, you've been here for 10 years, I'm aware, with your business.
00:05How have you seen, kind of, the cars and the drivers being on this main road?
00:10I think, to be fair, I think it's been a bit crazy from both sides, with the tram drivers and the car drivers.
00:18For example, outside our shop, if somebody parks their car, and the tram's there, pushing his...
00:24They have a bell, like a horn, and he's just on, you think you knock it, you get a bit of a hint.
00:29So, I don't know, if they're that aggressive with the horn, then maybe they're probably that little bit aggressive with the accelerator at the same time as well.
00:37But at the same time, you know, you do get a few cars speeding up and down at the same time as well.
00:42So, what do you think needs to happen? I mean, there were a number of incidents last week.
00:47What do you think needs to happen? What do people need to do to...
00:49Maybe they need to add another set of traffic lights, or something just where they can just slow the traffic down a little bit, maybe, and just make it a little bit safer.
00:57You know, we have traffic lights out here as well, but, I don't know, you can't put speed bumps on a busy road like this.
01:03But they need to have some kind of deterrent where they can slow the vehicles down.
01:07Maybe put a speed camera there, an average speed limit, or something like that as well.
01:11So, I'm sure they'll have many precautions that they can bring in, and to slow the traffic down and make it a bit safer.
01:18Thank you, Amo.