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Two year wait for pedestrian refuge
January 9, 2009 9:08 AM
Councillors and residents are still waiting for the completion of a badly needed pedestrian refuge on Bradford Road, Combe Down, opposite the playing fields. This is a fast road and families, children and others are frequently trying to cross to use the playing fields. It was agreed that the work would be done some two years ago and, since then, the local Combe Down Councillors, Cherry Beath and Roger Symonds have regularly lobbied the Cabinet Member responsible.
Whilst a start on the work began over a year ago, things were then put on hold apparently because of a wait for electrical work to be finished. In June last year, in answer to questions on this at Cabinet, Councillors Symonds and Beath were assured the work would be done in September 2008. When this did not happen there were further assurances the work would happen in October, but to date it has still not been completed.
Cllrs Beath and Symonds are upset at how long basic improvements are taking
Councillor Cherry Beath said, "This delay is wholly unacceptable, and meanwhile residents are daily having to take their lives in their hands in trying to cross this dangerous road. Surely this Conservative Administration can sort out getting the electrical work completed, if that is still the hold up, rather than just leaving things for a year or two. We have just had a bus shelter finally installed at the other end of Combe Down after another two years waiting. It is appalling for residents to be subjected to these lengthy delays in getting things done."
Councillor Roger Symonds said, "Yet again residents in Combe Down are being short changed by the Conservative Administration. They are unable to get the simplest jobs done in a reasonable time scale - 2 years for a bus shelter, more than 2 years and counting for a pedestrian refuge, and 3 years and counting to repair the boundary wall to Prior Park in Ralph Allen Drive. What compounds this inefficiency are the broken promises. The work on the pedestrian refuge was recently promised for September and then October of last year. How much longer do we have to wait?"
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