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Mar 2023
'Comprehensive' road safety improvements announced for Harrogate schools
Traffic restrictions, new crossing points and vehicle activated signs are to be introduced to make schools safer in the Harrogate district.
A meeting was held at St Aidan’s Church of England High School yesterday in response to growing concerns about traffic outside schools.
School leaders, councillors, road safety leads from the emergency services and campaigners Hazel Peacock, Dr Vicki Evans and Dr Jenny Marks were among those attending.
Cllr Keane Duncan, North Yorkshire County Council’s Conservative executive member for highways and transport, said afterwards a series of measures would be introduced to “make travelling to school safer, healthier and happier".
Full details are yet to be revealed but the measures will include Harrogate’s first School Streets pilot at Oatlands Junior School, which will see traffic banned except for residents and emergency vehicles on roads outside the school at busy times during school terms.
Cllr Duncan said:
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Concern about pupil safety was heightened when two 15-year-old boys from Rossett School were seriously injured outside Ashville College on February 2.
The 20's Plenty for Us campaign, which wants 20mph to be the default option on residential streets and in town and village centres, has also been calling for change.
Representatives from the following schools attended the meeting: Harrogate Grammar School, St Aidan’s Church of England High School, Rossett School, Western Primary, Rossett Acre Primary, Oatlands Junior School, Oatlands Infant School, St John Fisher’s Catholic High School, Ashville College, Harrogate College and Willow Tree Primary.
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