The Pedestrian Refuge is complete after waiting 47 years!

The pedestrian Refuge has now been completed on Southport Road in Formby. This will improve the safety of pedestrians on this very busy road.

It runs from the corner of Deansgate Lane North to Deansgate Lane on the B5424 Southport Road. This will be a very welcomed assett in the area for the many children and elderly pedestrians that try to cross this junction.

Sean Brady, a Formby active citizen who runs the Formby First website, has a personal interest in this crossing after waiting 47 years for it. Sean said;

"I delivered a petition to a Sefton Councillor in 1978. Cllr Peter Marsh, who lived in splendid circumstance in Shireburn Road, received it graciously from the hands of my children. We were campaigning for the installation of pedestrian controlled traffic lights but to no avail.

Eventually it was rejected on the grounds of insufficient traffic movements and not enough pedestrians. And so it has remained ever since".

Sean went on to say, "Finally after 47 years it will be interesting to see in what way the element of risk to pedestrians is reduced. It's always the passage of children from one side of Deansgate Lane to the other that in my view poses the danger but, it's also clear that the increasing number of elderly pedestrians also need additional protection".

Read Seans story on his website www.formbyfirst.org.uk