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This report examines options for improving road safety at the Main Street, Deighton/A19 junction and assesses the potential for the scheme to be funded from the Local Transport Plan Capital Programme.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to:

(i)                 Note the contents of the report;

(ii)               Agree not to include a scheme for junction improvements at Deighton in the capital programme for 2008/09 but to consider a scheme for all future programmes.

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:            That it would require displacement of other schemes from the capital programme that appear to offer greater value for money and the issue of whether a right-turn lane into the village will significantly improve safety at the junction, given that accident data suggests turning right out of the village is more likely to result in a collision.

This report examined options for improving road safety at the Main Street Deighton / A19 junction and assessed the potential for a scheme to be funded from the Local Transport Plan Capital Programme. The report concluded that the cost of providing a pedestrian refuge and right turn lane was too high for the benefits it would provide and recommended that the scheme was not re-classified. 

Officer’s confirmed that the very low number of current bus users meant a pedestrian refuge scheme on it’s own would offer low value for money and, in addition to this, the potential for a shift towards increased bus usage was limited due to Deighton’s low population.  Accident data over the last three years suggested that there were no issues with vehicles turning right into the village which meant that there appeared to be no immediate requirement for a right turn lane into Deighton.    

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to:

(i)                 Note the contents of the report;

(ii)               Agree not to include a scheme for junction improvements at Deighton in the capital programme for 2008/09 but to consider a scheme for all future programmes. ^1.

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:            That it would require displacement of other schemes from the capital programme that appear to offer greater value for money and the issue of whether a right-turn lane into the village will significantly improve safety at the junction, given that accident data suggests turning right out of the village is more likely to result in a collision.