Petition for pedestrian crossing set to be turned down by city council

People living in Stannington submitted the petition to Sheffield Council’s cabinet highways committee in March 2011 and that petition was then transferred to the city’s Northern Community Assembly.

The petition called for a pedestrian crossing at the junction of Stannington Road and Stanwood Avenue.

Council officials then investigated putting in a pedestrian crossing, but have since decided that such a move may “yield little dividend in terms of overall pedestrian safety.”

A report set to go before the Northern Community Assembly on Tuesday, July 10 says that in the last five years just one pedestrian, an 85-year-old man, was seriously injured at the junction.

The council officials add that the crossing would cost around £65,000, and say, because “visibility is restricted by the bend, it is not feasible to construct a safe pedestrian facility.”