Safety changes will be made on two Nottingham A-roads where almost 50 people have been injured in seven years.
The A609 (Ilkeston Road and Wollaton Road) and the A6130 (Gregory Boulevard, Radford Boulevard and Lenton Boulevard) will both receive upgrades worth over £1.4m.
Nottingham City Council hopes the work will reduce vehicle accidents, make the routes safer for pedestrians, and calm traffic around schools.
The money has been allocated from the government’s Safer Roads Fund.
Accident figures in a report to the council’s executive demonstrate why the safety improvements are seen as necessary.
The A609 – one of the main routes between the city centre and the western ring road – saw 125 collisions between 2015 and October 2022.
Two people were killed and 22 were seriously injured.
Proposed improvements to this road include signal pedestrian crossings, a new section of bus lane, and central refuges.
The junction with St Peter’s Street would get right-turn filter lanes, and other junctions would receive dedicated right-turn areas.
The A6130 – a key route in the west and north of the city – had 271 collisions during the same seven-year period, the report says.
A further two people were killed and 24 were seriously injured.
Two 20mph school safety zones would be created with narrower roads and traffic calming measures.
Other stretches of the road would receive a zebra crossing, central refuges, and improved right turns.
The report says: “Acceptance of the grant would allow the proposals to reduce the number and severity of road traffic collisions and resultant casualties on two of the most high-risk A-roads in Nottingham for drivers, passengers and cyclists, to be progressed.”
The council’s executive is set to accept the grant funding at a meeting on Tuesday (November 21).
