Courty Road North-National Avenue junction remodelling

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.”