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Question 5 - we asked:
With the cancellation of the Western Relief Road, Durham County Council's highways team is exploring increasing the number of lanes on the A167 between Sniperley roundabout and Neville's Cross. The footway on the east side of the road is currently shared between pedestrians and cyclists. Government design guidance would require people walking and cycling to be given separate, rather than shared, space on a main road, but it will not be possible to add motor traffic lanes and also improve the cycling and walking provision. Crossing the Sniperley roundabout on foot or by bike is scary. There is often congestion around Durham Johnson School during the school terms.
What is your preferred way forward for the A167 through Crossgate Moor?
We asked this question only in Neville's Cross.
2 of the candidates responded as below.
Those candidate(s) which were elected are highlighted.
| Brian Andrew FREEMAN (Labour Party) |
It is possible that a limited widening to produce designated bike lanes for cycle use only could assist. Although it is irrelevant during periods of congestion, I have long believed that a 30 miles per hour limit would be more appropriate along that stretch of road. Restricting access to articulated lorries would be a positive move. |
| Liz BROWN (Liberal Democrat) |
One of the options is to remove the lights at the Toll House Road junction and replace them with a roundabout which would encourage a free-er flow of traffic. Integrated transport system, Park and ride transport hubs around the major routes into the city with circular routes calling in at all centres of employment and usable cycle lanes. Less traffic in the centre wouyld encourage more people onto their bikes. In the great scheme of things the A167 is not that badly congested traffic does move southbound albeit slowly and the northbound traffic is inhibited by the lane merges which there is no way around |
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