More than three quarters of a million pounds has been pledged for a raft of road, bridge and other highway improvements across Lancaster and Morecambe.
The cash is part of a wider £20million pot of funding for schemes across Lancashire as part of the County Council’s Highways New Start Capital Programme.
The full list of areas earmarked for work are as follows:
Resurfacing:
Wyresdale Avenue, Heysham, between Kingsway and Bowland Road
Levens Drive, Morecambe, Outside number 36 to Lordsome Road
Hampton Road, Morecambe, Back Granville Road East to Westminster Road
Elmsdale Close, Skerton, full length
Moss Road, Heysham The Cattle Grid to Cattle Grid prior to Downlands
Surface dressing:
Palatine Avenue & surrounding roads (Palatine Avenue, Rutland Avenue, Gloucester Avenue, Addle Street, Wakefield Drive, Emerson Street, Devon Place, Durham Avenue, Warwick Avenue, Bedford Place, Chester Place and Kenilworth Place)
Bridges:
Mallard Footbridge, Morecambe North - scheme development
Glasson Dock Swing Bridge - Traffic Signal Asset Replacement Scheme Controller replacement; low voltage to extra low voltage. Replacement of all traffic signal heads from Halogen to LED. Review to ensure installation is fully operational.
Traffic management:
Torrisholme Road, West of St Chads Drive, (Eastbound and Westbound), Skerton - Over height Detection System Refurbishment Scheme, including full refurbishment of the existing over height detection installation, new controller, LED signs, over height detection, poles, ducting, loops and cabling.
The highways capital programme was revealed in a new report to the county council’s cabinet this week. It says the authority will be saving 267 tonnes of carbon by using recycled rather than new materials to maintain roads where appropriate, the equivalent to taking 116 cars off the road for a year.
County Councillor Charlie Edwards, cabinet member for highways and transport, said: "Our roads and supporting transport infrastructure are essential to our everyday lives and our economy, and keeping them in good condition is one of the county council's biggest responsibilities.
"We've seen plenty of Lancashire's typically wet and cold weather over recent weeks, which makes maintaining our roads a constant challenge, and why I'm very pleased that we have the resources available to make timely repairs, and focus on our long-term goal of improving the overall condition of our highways so that they cost less to maintain in future.
"Our highways teams are already busy with some of the structural repairs which need to be made before they can carry out surfacing treatments, and the programme of investment to be considered by cabinet will see much more activity in the coming weeks as the weather improves.
"We are paying ever closer attention to how we can reduce our impact on the environment, and we will be making a significant saving in C02 over the next year, with more to come in future as our highway teams continue to build on their experience of using recycled materials."
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