Road safety improvements for Stapleford school children and families

The 12-week project is one of a number of Stapleford Towns Fund’s active travel schemes, building on from the Ilkeston Road Cycle Hub and Cycle Training Track.  

The work will make journeys safer around Albany Junior School and the surrounding area, with a series of improvements including: 

• A new Puffin crossing – a traffic light-controlled road crossing that uses smart sensors to detect pedestrians - to provide a safer, more accessible way for people to reach the school entrance.  
• Two new tactile safer crossing points on the pavement at the Kennedy Drive / Pasture Road junction.
• Enlargement of the existing central crossing island at the Hickings Lane / Pasture Road junction
• More pavement resurfacing of the pedestrian paths along Pasture Road. 

These improvements will help slow traffic speeds along the road, improve pedestrian connections and non-motorised travel between Hickings Lane, the Stapleford Community Pavilion and Pasture Road Recreation Ground and the skatepark.  

Temporary traffic lights will be in place while the work is being carried out.

The school crossing patrol currently located on Pasture Road will relocate to Hickings Lane following completion of the works to continue to help children and adults to cross the road safely on their way to and from school.

Ian Jowett, Chair of Stapleford Towns Fund, said, “We’re so pleased work can now finally start to improve safety on this particularly busy and challenging section of road. It’s something we know local people have wanted for a long time and we’re pleased to be able to fund it through the Stapleford Towns Fund’s Active Travel project.” 
 
Looking ahead, further work is being explored to expand on the Active Travel scheme to better connect Stapleford and promote non-motor travel.