Telford Journal
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Telford & Wrekin Council has won a top national award for its controversial work on the Queensway A442 eastern primary road.
The scheme involved drastic lane alterations and cutting the speed limit from 70mph to 60mph.
Many drivers complain it only encourages traffic to bunch and that they are constantly being cut up by motorists who have found themselves in the wrong lane.
But the scheme won the Institution of Highways and Transportation’s IHT/Atkins Road Safety Award in “reducing all accidents” category.
Judges praised the innovative measures, which include a dedicated lane system to separate traffic joining and leaving the Queensway, new signing and marking and publicity and education campaigns.
The council’s move followed statistics which showed that on the Queensway A442 there were 174 casualties in a 9km stretch of the road during the past five years.
This meant that five per cent of the borough’s road traffic casualties occurred on just two per cent of the road network.
The signs on the A442 have stated "174 casualties in 5 years" since - to my knowledge - 2001
We are now in 2007, and the signs still say the same thing. Does that suggest that casualties have decreased in the last 5 years, because I cannot imagine that the council would keep the signs up if casualties had gone over the 174 mark????
I sent a FoI request in to the council about a week ago asking for accident stats on the 442. Should be interesting IF they respond.....
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