A few years ago some work was done on the roundabout at the junction of Winterbourne Road, Great Stoke Way, and Bradley Stoke Way. This work resulted in the significant narrowing of the entry to, and exit from, Great Stoke Way [map]. I infer that there had been a record of “traffic incidents” at this spot, and that the work
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Work is underway to install a new light-controlled pedestrian crossing at the site of two recent accidents on Bradley Stoke Way, close to the Willow Brook Centre. The crossing is part of a scheme of measures being implemented in response to a public petition signed by more than 3,900 people, following a serious accident in September last year in which
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The installation of a new light-controlled pedestrian crossing on Bradley Stoke Way looks set to go ahead following a decision by an Executive Councillor to ignore six objections received during a public consultation. South Gloucestershire Council drew up plans for the new crossing, together with a reduction in speed limit from 40mph to 30mph and the installation of a new
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has moved to clear up confusion over the status of a number of consultations relating to proposed road safety improvement measures on Bradley Stoke Way. The Council had drawn criticism over the delay in publishing the results of its original consultation, held from 20th December 2011 to 8th January 2012, and the fact that it had
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South Gloucestershire Council is running a second consultation on its proposed road safety improvements for Bradley Stoke Way, in the vicinity of the Willow Brook Centre. The latest consultation, which runs until Wednesday 8th February, invites comments on the new toucan crossing that is proposed to replace two uncontrolled crossing points that were the sites of two serious road traffic
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South Gloucestershire Council is inviting residents to have their say on a number of proposed casualty reduction measures on Bradley Stoke Way, in the vicinity of the Willow Brook Centre. The consultation comes after two school-age children were seriously injured in separate traffic accidents along this stretch of road earlier this year. A public petition for improved safety measures on
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Representatives of a group campaigning for improved road safety measures on Bradley Stoke Way will tonight (Wednesday 14th) address a meeting of South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) in a debate secured through the Council’s petitions scheme. Two serious accidents involving school-age children on the stretch of the road near the Willow Brook Centre earlier this year led to a group of
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has announced that a range of new measures are to be introduced to improve road safety on Bradley Stoke Way, in the vicinity of the Willow Brook Centre. The news follows two serious accidents on this stretch of road this year alone, both of which involved children who were using informal crossing points between Savages Wood
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has agreed to draft a proposal for a second toucan crossing on Bradley Stoke Way near the spot where a 13-year-old boy was seriously injured in a traffic accident three weeks ago. The news is revealed in the latest newsletter of Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), where the injured boy is a student in Year 9.
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A formal petition calling on South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) to implement a series of road safety improvement measures on Bradley Stoke Way is to be officially launched tomorrow (Saturday 15th). The move comes after an accident on Friday 30th September at a recognised crossing point on the busy road, in which a 13-year-old boy, believed to have been riding a
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