Two sections of Blackpool Promenade where residents 'take lives in their hands'
Work is underway to install two crossing points on a busy section of Blackpool Promenade after warnings residents were ‘taking their lives in their hands’ trying to reach the other side of the road.
Coun Clapham said: “People trying to cross the road were taking their lives in their hands. They were totally exposed in the middle of two lanes of traffic, inevitably going too fast. I can’t remember how many years we have been trying to get refuges put in, but it was always knocked back because of cost and there was no accident rate to talk of.
The refuges, which cost more than £20,000 each, will include illuminated bollards to make them visible to motorists. Councillors also campaigned for a pedestrian refuge on Clifton Drive, near the junction with Harrowside in South Shore, after residents raised safey fears.
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