Date published: 2024-02-21 | Category: Keynsham Area, Regeneration and Development, Streets and Highway Maintenance, Delivering for local residents, Focusing on prevention
Lining work on Keynsham High Street will be carried out following a road safety report.
Bath & North East Somerset Council will undertake the works overnight, subject to weather conditions, under a Temporary Traffic Regulation Notice, to avoid disruption to business and traffic during the day.
The lining work follows a Stage 4 Road Safety Audit which was carried out at the request of the council to further review the public realm improvements in Keynsham High Street, following complaints from people who have tripped and fallen since the works were completed in 2022.
Auditors made a series of recommendations which were then considered by the consultants who designed the scheme and the council, in its role as Highways Authority, in line with the appropriate guidance.
The agreed actions in the audit reflect the outcome of a design review undertaken in late 2023 and include the installation of double yellow line markings adjacent to the kerb between the cycle lane and carriageway to provide an additional cue to pedestrians as they cross the highway.
The solid white line which demarks the edge of cycle lane will also be replaced with a broken white line to better delineate it from the kerb.
Councillor Paul Roper, cabinet member for Economic and Cultural Sustainable Development, said: “Following the Stage 4 audit report we will carry out lining work on Keynsham High Street. This mitigation should make the change in levels clearer to pedestrians and prevent further trips and falls. We are grateful for people’s patience while the audit was undertaken and the road safety report compiled, which we are acting on.”
To read the report which has been published on the council’s website go to https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/planning-and-building-control/major-projects/keynsham-high-street-one-way-trial. A copy of the Stage 3 Road Safety Audit which was undertaken in June 2022, following completion of the scheme, can also be found here.
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Note to editors: The council does not yet have a date for the works as they are dependent on the weather and contractor availability, however they will be carried out at the earliest opportunity.