Council cash could improve safety for Abbeydale school kids
ROAD safety improvements around Abbeydale and Abbeymead schools are among the ideas for how to spend £10,000 offered to councillors for their communities.
Each county councillor could be given the cash to spend on highways projects in their wards, if agreed by cabinet on Wednesday.
The fund is the latest stage of Gloucestershire County Council programme Highways Your Way, which is aimed at localising services.
Highways managers will work with county councillors to find out where people in their wards want the money to be spent.
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Earlier this year, residents near Heron School appealed for parking bays to be introduced in the area, limiting the amount of dangerous parking by parents during term time.
Councillor Andrew Gravells (C, Abbey) is appealing for more people to come forward with ideas on how the money should be spent.
"This is a really good idea, and I'm keen to hear from as many people as possible on what we could do with the money," he said.
"I've already been given several good ideas.
"Heron School has suggested some new ideas which could eventually make it much safer for their pupils to cycle to school.
"I'm looking into that and meeting with road safety officers there very soon. Some people have suggested looking at ways to reduce speeding along some of the roads here.
"This initiative has certainly got people thinking."
Heron School head teacher John Coles said: "Any extension of the existing cycle path network, to include the area adjacent to school, would be a positive step forward and may in turn reduce parking problems."
Councillors will also be given the option of pooling their money with other members to pay for cross-division schemes, such as major resurfacing projects.
Comments
by IsitJimKerr
Monday, October 22 2012, 8:56AM
“MentalBeaver..................agree, totally.
In fact, along with John Coles asking for extra help for children to cycle to school, I would suggest that the double yellow lines be extended, to cover both sides of the road from Fieldfare to Morrisons.
That way, it would allow the crossing patrols to see further along either way, and would make parents allow two minutes extra each morning and have to park a little further away, and escort their little princes and princesses to the school gate, rather than stopping on the zig-zags, flinging the doors open, and chucking the little darlings out, sometimes almost without stopping!”
by MentalBeaver
Monday, October 22 2012, 7:38AM
“"Earlier this year, residents near Heron School appealed for parking bays to be introduced in the area, limiting the amount of dangerous parking by parents during term time."
And I'm sure the residents, especially the ones with houses facing out on to Heron Way, don't just want to use the parking bays themselves which would actually make the problem worse because parents would then have nowhere to park.”