Funding for local traffic schemes

Local Councillors won funding for a number of traffic schemes at the recent Frome Vale Area Forum.

In Westerleigh, £7000 will be spent investigating how to tackle speeding traffic on Westerleigh Road and Shorthill Road.In 2008, Claire Young secured funding for the crossing point at the bus stop on Westerleigh Road, with the twin aims of making it safer to cross and slowing the traffic, but this and the white hatching on Shorthill Road haven't managed to solve the speeding problem. Now the money is available for this to be investigated thoroughly.

Last year the Area Forum funded an investigation into the problems stopping buses getting through Iron Acton High Street. Now the Forum has provided £8000 to implement the waiting restrictions recommended in the review.

The Forum also proposed to give £8000 towards impementing the results of the speed limit review on the B4509 route from B4508 Hammerley Down to Wickwar, a scheme that also involves Severnvale Area Forum.

The Forum also asked the Transport Exec to look at extending the footpath on Perrinpit Lane, a scheme too large to be dealt with from the Area Forum budget.