I was really pleased to hear from the Department for Transport recently that, as part of a £38 million boost for safer roads across England, North Northamptonshire Council is set to receive £2.2 million to improve conditions on the A6 - a key part of our local strategic road network.
This funding will allow local councils to make life-saving improvements to a further 17 of the country’s most high-risk roads, meaning that, from Devon to Durham, road users will now benefit from safety improvements on a total of 99 roads, thanks to the £147.5 million already invested in this area. And, while Britain has some of the safest roads in the world, the Government recognises that there is always more to do to minimise the risk of injury and fatalities on our highways; it is estimated that all tranches of the Safer Roads Fund will save nearly 2,600 fatal and serious injuries over the next 20 years. Improvements will include designing new junctions and roundabouts, improving signage and road markings, and new road surfacing and landscape management, to name just a few. This will mean safer and greener journeys, as well as ensuring better mobility on our roads, keeping the country, and road users and the economy, moving. I know this will come as welcome news locally, and given the wider recent significant extra funding North Northamptonshire Council has received to improve road conditions locally, this certainly comes as a further welcome boost.
You can read more about this, here, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/38-million-boost-for-safer-roads-across-england and read a letter I received from the Minister about this at the link at the bottom of this page.