Improvements made to the A414 in Essex are designed to reduce accidents, ease congestion and improve traffic flow
Delivering safer roads
May Gurney Highway Services is working in partnership with its local authority customers to help reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on roads across the UK.
To this end, several road safety improvement schemes - in Essex, Norfolk and East Sussex - have been successfully delivered in recent weeks.
Improvements made to the A414 Ongar Road in Essex are designed to reduce accidents, ease congestion and improve traffic flow on one of the county's busiest routes to the M11.
Work included reconstructing bends to make them more conspicuous, eliminating adverse camber, and improvements to road signs and markings.
"By planning the work in partnership with Essex CC, and working overnight at weekends, we managed to keep disruption to a minimum."
Peter Batts, May Gurney |
Peter Batts, Highway Services Managing Director, said: "Restrictions on site and the volume of traffic on this major route made this a particularly challenging project.
"However, by planning the work in partnership with Essex CC, and working overnight at weekends, we managed to keep disruption to a minimum."
The A1067 Stibbard crossroads in Norfolk has been the scene of 10 injury accidents over a five-year period.
Works to improve safety at the crossroads has been successfully completed by May Gurney under the Norfolk Strategic Partnership (NSP) with Norfolk County Council and consultants Mott MacDonald.
Stibbard cossroads before the improvements
The scheme has improved visibility and staggered the two junctions
The scheme, which was formally opened on 22 August, has improved visibility and staggered the two junctions to assist right turn movements, cyclists and bus users - and improve access to the village Primary School.
Main works began in April 2007 and despite the wettest summer on record the scheme was completed within target cost.
To minimise disruption to the public, final surfacing works, which required road closures, were carried out overnight.
In a bid to reduce the potential for serious accidents, the East Sussex Highways partnership has recently completed works to install safety barriers in the central reservation on a stretch of the A22.
And earlier this year, the partnership carried out a scheme in Hastings Old Town to convert two existing zebra crossings located on the A259 into puffin crossings.
Puffin crossings are the next generation of pelican crossings and aim to further improve safety and reduce delays. Detectors determine when people are waiting to cross the road and control the light signals so that pedestrians have enough time to cross. An audible signal is given when the crossing is in use - but traffic is not stopped unless someone is waiting to cross the road.
Anti-skid surfacing was also installed, and the street lighting improved, at both locations. The road closure required for the resurfacing was restricted to Sundays to reduce inconvenience and disruption to traffic flow.
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