John Fareham and
John Abbott are working on proposals to
remodel the junction of County Road North and National Avenue.
It is early days
yet, and we are still discussing with officers such matters as whether a
feasibility study is necessary (we don’t think one is, and unlike others, we
never do) and whether we should pay for it (as previously noted, the corporate
centre snaffled every ward’s highways budget and now claims not to know where
it put them all). Options suggested by the officers were a traffic island which
we do not favour because of its potential impact on tenfoot access, and
narrowing the carriageway at the junctions to slow down traffic and facilitate
the installation of a pedestrian crossing with a dropped kerb and tactile
paving. This latter would be in the best interests of those with limited or no
visibility who, without such assistance, find crossing this junction rather
fraught.”
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