Sunday 18 April 2010

Prioritising Road Safety

Local residents will be all too aware of the on-going issues with parking on Links Avenue.

Your local Councillor, Sue McGuire, has spent the last 4 years trying to get something done to improve the situation which includes limited vehicle access to the area and the road being too narrow to provide off- road parking for everybody.

Sue McGuire asked Council Officers to look at possible options which could address this situation. These ideas include reducing the width of the pavement to make the road wider, or to create small independent parking lay-byes, by restructuring the areas around the raised flower bed to create defined parking areas, or even possibly removing the raised flower bed itself. Council Officers are currently getting quotations for the above works, however, all of the options are likely to prove expensive and so may not be undertaken for sometime.

Lib Dem Councillor, Sue McGuire, said of the situation, “Needless to say, I am very disappointed at this on-going delay and as a resident of the area, I know from first-hand experience just how dangerous this section of road can be, especially when icy. I give residents my word that something will be done here.”

The Liberal Democrats guarantee we will continue to fight for something to be done to improve road safety in this area.

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