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Jan 2024
Call for council to improve ‘poor’ Boroughbridge road conditions
A Boroughbridge resident has called on North Yorkshire Council to make “urgent” improvements to a local road.
The man, who wished to remain anonymous, lives on Roecliffe Lane and told the Stray Ferret he has spent the last year campaigning to have the road resurfaced.
He said he and other local residents have issued “over a decade of complaints” to the council to resurface the road, as well as requested traffic-calming measures to make it safer, but are yet to see anything come to fruition.
Following a recent petition organised by the man and signed by Roecliffe Lane residents, he said the same recurring issues became “abundantly clear”:
The noise from traffic can also be alarmingly loud and frequent, and speeding is a big issue along the road, he added.
The road was in 'poor' condition back in 2013. Pic: fixmystreet.
Now, he is proposing a “resident-first rethink”. He said:
He also suggested the council implement new speeding enforcements to “protect the residents and their children from the up-to-81mph speeding vehicles.”
Roecliffe Lane in 2023.
‘Resurfacing is in our programme’
In response to the concerns raised, Melissa Burnham, highways area manager for North Yorkshire Council, told the Stray Ferret:
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