Vandyke Upper School Headteacher, Tim Carroll, showed Andrew Selous MP the dangerous road layout outside his school on Thursday morning.
This section of road used to have a single vehicle width restriction which slowed the traffic right down outside the school. The new road layout has introduced a sharp bend next to the school entrance, with no width restriction and not even any signage in the vicinity to warn motorists of children crossing the road. The junction also has a proposed cycle route on it.
Commenting, Andrew Selous MP said:
“Mr Carroll has raised this issue with me on a number of occasions as well as raising it with local councillors. The new road layout does not have the safety of the old width restriction and it is also a 30 mile an hour speed limit when many schools have a 20 mile an hour limit outside them. With the children from Gilbert Inglefield Academy, there are 2,200 pupils coming in and out of these two schools every day and road safety should be a paramount consideration. I have written again to Central Bedfordshire Council to ask for urgent road safety measures to be introduced.”