Road improvements to boost safety for pupils
Road improvements to boost safety for pupils and parents as they walk to school are set to begin.
Work is due to start near Manor Primary School on Ettingshall Road and Foster Avenue in Wolverhampton on Wednesday.
The move comes after two collisions that involved pedestrians during drop-off and pick-up times at the school happened in the past three years, a city council review found.
Councillor Qaiser Azeem said: "Creating a safer environment will encourage more families to walk to school, improving healthy lifestyles, cutting carbon emissions and benefitting air quality."
He added: "It will improve safety by slowing traffic and ensuring roads near the school are kept free from vehicles parking dangerously."
Measures include school zone road markings, new signs, speed cushions, dropped kerbs at crossings and waiting restrictions in Ettingshall Road and Foster Avenue.
A temporary three-way traffic signal will be in place on Ettingshall Road on Friday and 14 April at the Foster Avenue and Nally Drive junctions.
Ettingshall Road will be closed on 15 April between the junctions of Nally Drive and Foster Avenue from 08:00 GMT to 16:30 with diversions in place.
The road will also be closed again during the same times on 16 and 17 April.
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