The Safer Roads Funding update
27th of September, 2022
Lancashire has written out with progress of Lancashire's Safer Roads Fund programme. We are about to begin the next phase of this major project which involves installing average speed cameras on five roads in the districts of Chorley, Fylde, Lancaster, the Ribble Valley, West Lancashire and Wyre.
The Safer Roads Fund was established by the Department for Transport in 2016 to improve safety on England's 50 most dangerous A-roads.
Lancashire County Council made a successful bid for £7.9m to deliver improvements on the five 'high risk' routes which had been identified within the county, with the funding being awarded in 2018. The fund is specifically targeted at delivering road upgrades and improvements with the aim of reducing the number and severity of fatal and serious injury collisions.
A range of work has already taken place to improve safety on the five routes, with aspects of the programme which involve upgrades such as installing LED cats eyes, high-reflectivity road markings and safety barriers, now having been delivered. The county council's Cabinet also recently agreed a series of speed limit reductions designed to improve the safety of these roads.
The schedule for the next phase of work to install average speed cameras is due to take place as follows:
A581 Rufford to Euxton September 2022 to December 2022
A588 Lancaster to Skippool November 2022 to April 2023
A683 Lancaster M6 J34 to Kirkby Lonsdale January 2023 to May 2023
A6 Lancaster city centre to M6 J33 February 2023 to June 2023
A682 Gisburn to North Yorks boundary March 2023 to June 2023
A full briefing note is attached.
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