This crossing is heavily used by families, school children,
college students and our older residents. At the moment it is not
fit for purpose as it is too narrow to safely fit a parent and
pram, as well any extra children on. There are lots of people who
need to use it during rush hour traffic when drivers are more often
than not speeding, jostling for an advanced position or trying to
turn into the local school. There are crossings further up and down
the road, but as it is one of the busiest roads in Preston,
especially at peak times, we think it would not only benefit the
local residents and serve a number of local schools by giving
everyone an extra safe place to cross, but also help to manage the
speed of the traffic as at times the road seems to double up as a
dual carriageway because of the width of the road.
This ePetition ran from 17/11/2016 to 31/12/2016 and has now finished.
44 people signed this ePetition.
As the highway authority for Lancashire we have a finite budget
for traffic related schemes and a responsibility to prioritise our
resources that best serve the residents and road users in
Lancashire. Our current priority is to target those resources at
locations with a proven road safety issue which is determined by
significant numbers of injury accidents, in addition to schemes
that will contribute to the improvement of the wider highway
network.
On review of the injury accident records there has been one
recorded incident involving a pedestrian in the last 5 years or
longer. As this indicates a good road safety history we are unable
to support the request for a pedestrian crossing scheme at this
location at this time.
However as there is already a very low kerb refuge island on the
carriageway with dropped crossing facilities on both footways
leading to the refuge island, we do intend to enlarge it to provide
greater capacity and we anticipate the construction will be carried
out in early summer 2017