Calls for Fishergate road safety work not to be axed (From York Press)

Calls for Fishergate road safety work not to be axed

9:37am Friday 9th July 2010 in

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YORK’S Green Party leader has called on transport bosses not to let spending cuts delay plans to improve pedestrian safety at a dangerous junction.

Coun Andy D’Agorne urged City of York Council’s city strategy boss, Coun Steve Galloway, to press ahead with work to upgrade the Fishergate gyratory system.

His pleas came after council officers published a report asking Coun Galloway to approve a recommendation to reduce funding for the scheme and suspend any work until “future years”.

Coun D’Agorne said safety improvements should be treated as a priority following the death of pedestrian Lucie Brabyn outside Toto’s Italian restaurant in 2007.

He said: “At the moment this is a blind corner for pedestrians, but the proposed work would change the design of this junction, with a build-out, so pedestrians are in a position to see traffic coming round the corner.

“Fishergate gyratory is a major barrier as well as road safety hazard to people walking or cycling to the city centre, and should be upgraded for safety before the Barbican comes back into operation.”