Road Safety Concerns

CARL SARGEANT AM CALLS ON COUNCIL TO SPEND ON ROAD SAFETY
Carl Sargeant, AM for Alyn and Deeside, has called upon the independent-led Flintshire County Council to spend some of its £9.1million reserves on road safety measures in the county.Mr Sargeant said: “I am calling on Flintshire local authority to spend some of taxpayers’ money on traffic solutions for Flintshire. “Not a week goes by when constituents are not raising local traffic issues with me – be it speeding vehicles in Penyffordd, Treuddyn and Buckley, or gridlocks across Deeside and Shotton.“These problems are not going to go away on their own. Some serious investment is needed. There is no point in sitting on such huge sums of money when there is work to be done across the county.“It is not appropriate to hide behind the A494 unpopular scheme funding. These are local roads paid for by the public under the responsibility of the local authority. £9.1 million reserves will go a long way to make our children and older people safe when they wish to cross the road.”Mr Sargeant has received support from Councillor Cindy Hinds, who said: “It is most important that the 60 mph is reduced to 30 in Dobshill because of children's play areas and children alighting buses for school and pensioners are trying to cross a road at their own peril. “There are roads in Pen-y-ffordd that need reducing to at least 40 and in my own opinion should be 30mph.”
Shotton Town Council has been raising the issue of traffic congestion with Flintshire County Council year on year without much success.
The chaiperson of Shotton Town Council David Evans said: "There has always been a political will to do something about the problems we have in Shotton but the civil servants have always found excuses not to do anything about it.
"One of the main issues is that the buses stop in the middle of the road thereby causing congestion, the Council must modify the laybys for the buses and allow the traffic to keep moving.
"I would seriously welcome our Council leader making this a priority as this not only affects residents but also affects businesses and passing trade".