The second part of these safety measures is the improvement of the markings and visibility at the Golborne Road / Bolton Road junction as seen in the sketch map above. The measures that are proposed are as follows:
1. The building of a pedestrian island at the top of Golborne Road
2. Red reflective surfaces along Bolton Road and Golborne Road as marked on the map
3. The planting of trees in the church grounds as indicated on the map
4. Reduction of the junction radius on Golborne Road
Once again all comments should be in to the Council by July 1st.
4 comments:
That is going to be horrendousfor cars going straight on from ashton to bolton because it means that only one or two cars turning right into golborne rd. will be able to move over at a time... the rest will have to wait in line and thus blocking the path of cars going straight on.... its plain stupid and must not be allowed..
Can someone explain why the numpties at Wigan are hell bent on narrowing roads as they are suggesting at golborne road. We should be looking at making the roads wider. As councillor for Ashton its your duty to get these numpties out of their planning chairs and visit the sites the keep making the stupid so called improvements were going backward in Ashton first narrowing Gerrard street now Bolton road proposed. When a car wants to turn right out of golborne road and is stuck because of throughh traffic and traffic turning right the que will go back to Golborn NO THOUGHT WHATSOEVER HAS GONE INTO THIS AGAIN ASHTON IS STILL THE DUMPING GROUND FOR WIGAN HIGHHWAYS ITS TIME FOR A CHANGE AT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND SOMEONE TO SPEAK UP FOR ASHTON PEOPLE.
This is a crazy idea; it may slightly improve safety at this junction but the overall effect, as the previous post says, will be to cause congestion and tailbacks in Golborne Road.
This is a very busy junction but for 95% of the time traffic flows freely, showing that there is nothing wrong with the present layout. By all means put in the red reflective surfaces at the approaches to the junction, put in a pedestrian crossing but don't change the layout.
Planting of trees outside St Lukes - excellent idea, there are far too few trees on our streets, but will they obsure the line-of-sight to the right for driver's emerging from Golborne Road?
Traffic planning - Wigan Council appear not to understand the concept.
Narrowing Gerard Street so that traffic, and especially articulated vehicles, are even closer to pedestrians on the footpaths and increasing the risk of injury is lunacy.
It is patently obvious that the proposed changes at the Bolton Road/Golborne Road junction will significantly increase congestion and add to the existing tail backs at peak period.
We need serious representation to hold these council employees (paid for by us) accountable
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