Some good news from last night’s Highways Panel:

• Crescent Road carriageway will be repaired.  This includes the humps which have become very worn over time.  After discussion, it was decided that these really do need to go back as they do slow down the traffic.  Cllr David Kendall reminded the committee of two deaths in that road some years ago which was the reason they were put in in the first place.
• The Vehicle Activated Signs for London Road and Warley Hill have been ordered.

However, some less good news regarding the Highways Rangers.  Of the 113 requests that I put in for works, only 11 made it on to the list.  Yes, ELEVEN.  All of these 11 were requests to clean or repair road name signs.  All the other requests will go into the general  programme of works. But at least they are on the list after I took the opportunity to drive down every single road in the ward to compile the list.

The Highways Rangers were trumpeted just prior to the elections earlier this year with the promise that they would be flying around town, ward-by-ward, filling in pavement damage, cutting back vegetation, sorting out fly-tipping, cleaning out gulleys, cleaning and re-painting street furniture and cleaning street signs.  Why then, has only the latter gone onto the works list?  Is this just another empty tory election promise?