Take care if you’re planning a stroll through Streethay today because roadworks on Burton Old Road are forcing motorists to mount the pavement.
At the near end of the roadworks (pictured above) the barriers jut out so far that drivers of larger vehicles can’t fit through.
Obviously roadworks have to take place and because the road is so small it’s inevitable that vehicles may have to mount the pavement, but there would surely have been room on the other side of the roadworks to give pedestrians a safe place to walk?
But instead of this they’re forced to take their chances on the pavement as I found out for myself on an early evening stroll last night.
That such minor works can cause these sort of problems is yet more proof that this route is not suitable for the 24-hour access industrial units which have been approved for the far end of the road.
