Thursday, December 07, 2006

Knightside Gardens traffic review

Gateshead’s Highways Department has agreed to monitor traffic movements at the bend on Knightside Gardens and the adjacent junction with Maple Ave over the coming months. This follows a new build that has cut the visibility on the road.

Councillor Yvonne McNicol said, “I have had site visits made by council and police with myself to look at the dangers now posed on this part of the road. At this point the Council have simply agreed to repaint the "slow" signs already on the road to make them clearer.

“Following their monitoring of the area, which will be over by April 2007, engineers will look at installing road signs if they feel they are necessary to indicate oncoming traffic due to the tightness of the bend.

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