The newly introduced 20 mph zone on Fountain Street is a good news story. It slows the traffic down on Fountain Street and keeps students using Fountain Primary and Morley Academy safer. The scheme - which is part of a Government pilot project - reduces the speed limit across a specific area and will be rolled out to other areas after it is fully assessed and the results are clear.
A similar scheme is to be introduced into Gildersome with the aim of slowing traffic that flows past both primary schools in the village and a further road marking scheme for Churwell Primary also offers a safer traffic environment for children and parents.
So you'd think that everyone would be happy with this. Apparently not the Labour Party! At a recent Town Council meeting the whole Labour group voted against an MBI amended resolution welcoming the change. Unbelievable!
We have worked hard on traffic safety schemes and the new system we delivered on Britannia Road seems to be working well as car speeds are reduced because of road narrowing measures. We still have work to do and a road safety programme for Wide Lane close to the school is working it way through the processes.
Highways concerns will always be an issue and with increasing car numbers on roads aligned to a large group of intolerant and ant-social drivers around I suspect we will have plenty of work to do in the future.
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