Two years wait, and Counting, for Pedestrian Refuge
The fact that we have been waiting for well over two years for the completion of the Pedestrian Crossing on the Bradford Road just past the junction with Entry Hill, is well known by local residents, who take their lives in their hands in trying to cross this fast moving, dangerous patch of road.
This is a saga of broken promises, stretching back a considerable length of time. Early last year it looked like a channel for the electrical work had been done, but then nothing else happened. A delay in getting the electrics completed so we were told. In June last year at Cabinet the Member responsible, Cllr Charles Gerrish, promised the crossing would be done in September ’08. When that didn’t happen, we were yet again assured it would happen in October, but… still no crossing to date, and no up dating on the situation, information only found out by our persistent chasing up of Cllr Gerrish.
At last weeks Cabinet meeting, Cherry raised again with Cllr Gerrish this dangerous and totally unacceptable delay, and was told work would begin 9th March (what year you might well ask…) The next day he corrected this and said actually it would not start until 23rd March ’09. However I will not hold my breath.
I do find this alarming in terms of the management of surely a simple piece of highways work. Coupled with the fact that it took again more than two years, plus a petition to full Council, to get a Bus Shelter installed at the Hadley Arms stop, begs the question of whether this is competant administration. These works do affect the every day lives of residents, and this is definately not good service.
(Picture shows local residents and ourselves braving the traffic last week)
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