A new £2million plan to improve local road safety across Rotherham is set to be approved by Rotherham Council Cabinet when it meets on Monday 11 July.
If approved, money set aside in the annual Council Budget for a string of localised road safety schemes will see major road improvement works undertaken across the borough in the next financial year. These will include traffic calming measures and the building of new pedestrian crossings.
Rotherham Council Cabinet Member for Transport, Cllr Dominic Beck said: “We’re committed to developing and promoting Rotherham as a great place to live, work and visit.
“Our councillors have been working with residents to plan how we bring about further road safety improvements. I’m pleased to say that people have been very responsive and have come forward to share their thoughts. This has enabled the Council to identify where change is most needed.
“Residents have told us where road safety schemes are needed and we will now invest another £2million to help keep people safe on Rotherham roads. These road improvement schemes will make a real difference to our neighbourhoods and people’s lives.”
Some of the planned improvements include:
A pedestrian-crossings works programme at:
- Upper Wortley Road, Kimberworth
- Morthen Road, Wickersley
- Meadowbank Road, Bradgate
Spending assigned to existing roads schemes in progress:
- Coach Road, Greasbrough
- Rotherway Roundabout indirect signal control, Canklow
- Monitoring and evaluation, A57 Todwick Roundabout
- Great Eastern Way, Rawmarsh pedestrian crossing
- Refuges, Roughwood Road, Kimberworth Park
- Safety scheme markings on Cumwell Lane between Hellaby and Thurcroft, and Psalter Lane, Bradgate
- Traffic calming, Colliery Road, Kiveton Park
- Cycleway Monitoring, Fenton Road, Wingfield
- Haugh Road, Rawmarsh
- Laughton Common Road (between Thrybergh and Laughton Common)
• Outstanding works, College Road Roundabout, Rotherham.
These works are scheduled to be delivered under the Transport Capital Programme, which sets out planned Council spending in the 2022/23 financial year.
Next year will see an increase in the amount of money spent by Rotherham Council, with £445,000 set aside for locally identified road safety schemes and a further £520,000 pledged towards works to improve pedestrian crossings.
Typical localised road safety measures will include; new traffic and parking restrictions, new or improved pedestrian crossings, speed control measures and small-scale highway improvements. £25,000 has also been set aside for Collision Investigation and Prevention work.
Cllr Beck added: “We’ve shrunk the number of potholes on our roads and compensation claims have fallen. Our roads are getting better all the time. These new road safety measures are another step forward for Rotherham.”
