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Oct 2020
£100,000 Skipton Road traffic light scheme delayed due to Nightingale
A £100,000 scheme to replace traffic lights on Skipton Road has been delayed until next year due to Harrogate’s Nightingale Hospital.
North Yorkshire County Council was expected to refurbish Skipton Road's junctions with Kings Road and Bilton Lane this year.
It would have included introducing a larger island at the Kings Road junction and installing new traffic lights at both junctions.
However, the scheme will now be delayed until the next financial year as the areas are deemed to be too close to the town’s Nightingale Hospital.
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Melisa Burnham, highways area manager at the county council, said:
The area has had weeks of disruption since the summer, with first Northern Gas Networks and then CityFibre using temporary lights while they carried out work.
News of the delay to junction upgrades comes after the government announced that the Nightingale Hospital in Harrogate has been placed on standby amid a second wave of infections.
However, Lord Newby, a House of Lords peer who lives in Ripon, told the Stray Ferret last week that the hospital “simply does not have the staff available to allow it to operate safely”.
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