Council set to improve safety at Coalbrookdale & Ironbridge Primary
Telford & Wrekin Council is set to install a package of road safety improvements outside Coalbrookdale & Ironbridge Primary School.
This follows a comprehensive review to identify what works can funded from existing budgets to make the approach and exit from the school safer for everybody.
The works will take place on February 7 and 8 and will include installation of a flashing school zone sign on the school approach and extension of the double yellow line outside the school.
It will also include revising the School Keep Clear notifications to tie in with the new extended double yellow lines and also painting road marking warning signs on the carriageway.
The scheme is included in the Council’s £600,000 investment to improve safety outside of schools as part of its Pride in Our Community capital programme for 2018/19.
Councillor Hilda Rhodes, Telford & Wrekin Council’s cabinet member for Transport, said: “The safety of everyone arriving and leaving the school at both ends of the day is the most important consideration when determining what measures we introduce.
“What we are proposing should significantly improve the visibility of the school area to raise awareness to drivers.
“We are happy to continue to work with the school to look at future measures as well as carrying out any necessary road safety education or creating a walking bus facility.
“We also plan to set up a joint stakeholder meeting in February to co-ordinate and discuss aspirations for school safety in the area.”
Details of other Pride in Our Community improvements here. More information about road safety here.
