(07 Aug 2023, 2:58 pm)Michael wrote ‘Sunderland’s worst roundabout’ to be replaced with new traffic light system
A roundabout dubbed ‘the worst in Sunderland’ is to be replaced with a new traffic light system. Work is scheduled to begin in spring 2025.
However, a North East Joint Transport Committee, at which Sunderland City Council was represented by its leader Cllr Graeme Miller, agreed on July 18 to allocate £33.2million of funding from the Government to upgrade traffic signals and key junctions across the region as part of the Bus Service Improvement Plan.
https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/peop...em-4245443
About time!
It was lethal when I went to Broadway Juniors - a lass in my year was knocked over and ended up breaking her leg in 3 places, that was in 2000... seen many close calls during rush hour too.
In all fairness the traffic chaos on Chester Road is more likely to be caused by the roundabout at the bottom of the hill. But any work to change to a Sandhills type layout should be replicated there, and at the worst of all Bridge Street farce leading onto the Wearmouth Bridge. Miller and Co have their heads up their arses when it comes to traffic. That's why the 'strategic' corridor ends at the Bridge Street roundabout ...