Icknield Way and London Road - Useful Meeting on Traffic Speeds and Footway Extension to Farm Shop and Brewery
Yesterday afternoon County Councillor Nick Hollinghurst was pleased to get three HCC highways engineers over to see the situation on the Icknield Way at New Mill.
Heavy, fast moving traffic made the point that there was a real need for a crossing coupled with speed reduction measures and improved visibility. The matter of funding from the county's "Safer Routes to Schools" funding was raised.
The party then moved on to see the problem stretch of Footpath 41 between Silk Mill Way and New Road and discussed a possible extension to an existing Urban Transport Plan to include that section.
The plan envisages a doubling in width of Footpath 41 to accomodated dual cycle and pedestrian use. The location of a proposed crossing over Silk Mill Way was also discussed.
Further up along Brook Street the line of the proposed wheelchair access route was pointed out to the group.
Then the party moved on to look at a proposal to provide a new footway from the end of Footpath 39 on London Road to the entrance to the Farm and the Brewery and possibly further on to the bus stop on the east side of London Road.
Cllr Hollinghurst said,
"This is welcome progress - but I must warn, as always, that highways issues always take several years to resolve. We've been talking about both these issues now for between 1 and 2 years. But now at least two site visits have taken place. It's a couple of steps in the right direction."