Bracknell Forest Conservatives recently agreed plans to spend £7.25m on improving and maintaining roads, pavements and cycleways over the next year.
The plans include ongoing maintenance, like filling in potholes and resurfacing roads, as well as a number of highways, pedestrian and cycling improvements so people can get around the borough safely and sustainably. These are in line with what the local community has been telling the council it would like to see improved.
It also includes several road safety schemes and improvements to tackle parking pressures and bottlenecks.
- Planned traffic management and road safety work for 2023/24 includes:
- A new toucan crossing on Temple Way (north of the junction with Boltons Lane), which will help parents and children get to King’s Academy Binfield more safely.
- A new zebra crossing on Cambridge Road in Sandhurst, near to Owlsmoor Primary School.
- A new zebra crossing on Rectory Road, opposite Brakenhale School.
- An extension to the upgrade of the footpath and cycle path on South Road to link in King’s Academy Easthampstead Park.
- Increased parking in Claverdon, Swaledale, Kibble Green, Latimer, Fraser Road, Holland Pines and Prescott.
- Speed management to improve road safety on Temple Way, Wood Lane, Park Lane and Sunninghill Road. More than £2.6m will be spent on the planned resurfacing of a number of residential roads as well as major roads like the A322, A3095 and A330. There will also be £100,000 invested in technology to improve traffic flow and crossing points at key junctions – this will help improve journey times.