Readers help to get action on old road signs
County council acts on calls by your News
Some of Scarborough’s longest-running road issues may finally be solved after North Yorkshire County Council announced a new £2m funding package.
The eyesore B&M store traffic cones in Seamer Road will finally be replaced by a traffic island – four years after it was suggested.
The county will also use the money to replace the town’s many damaged or out-of-date signs, which point people to non-existent attractions.
Other signs fail to mention the new Alpamare waterpark, the new University Technical College or the new Coventry University in Scarborough .
A Scarborough News campaign for action on signage was backed by readers who helped to point out the many examples that provided a downbeat or confusing welcome and North Yorkshire County Council has responded positively. Also included in the works are:
Town centre highway maintenance and refurbishment to encourage access to this heritage-rich part of town, ickluding Westborough, Eastborough and Newborough;
Resurfacing Scarborough’s main North Bay promenade (Royal Albert Drive/Marine Drive).
The money comes from the government’s National Productivity Investment Fund, a pot of £185m to improve road networks and public transport announced in the Chancellor’s statement last year.
In January, the Department for Transport allocated the funding, including £5.1m for North Yorkshire, £2m of which will be spent in Scarborough. The money must be spent on transport schemes in the county during 2017/18.
Barrie Mason, assistant director, Highways and Transportation, said: “The draft programme copiled following this process will meet the government’s requirements to ease congestion and upgrade important roads and unlock future job-creation opportunities.”