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Dangerous kerb upstand north footway Faringdon Rd.
Sent to Oxfordshire County Council 1 minute later
Following the recent resurfacing operation along Faringdon Road in Kingston Bagpuize I have noticed that the kerb upstand, which is there to protect pedestrians from errant vehicles, has all but disappeared on the northern footway from just west of Rimes Close towards the mini roundabout. This is now an extremely dangerous situation considering the speed of vehicles at this location and needs immediate measures to both reduce vehicle speeds and a physical barrier between the footway and the carriageway to provide pedestrians with some element of returned safety. These low level kerb upstands are more often seen in town centre pedestrian areas. I have marked this as urgent as I can perceive a serious accident will occur if nothing is done to remedy this situation.
Council ref: ENQ241010913
Updates
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Thank you for your enquiry. This issue has been passed onto the relevant team for investigation.
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Faringdon Road was surfaced as part of the countywide Surface Dressing programme of works this year, treating over 1,000,000m2 of carriageway in 8 weeks. We have over 3000 miles of roads to treat, so we cannot always do things like surfacing when the road has failed, as that would be very expensive. So, we must take a balanced approach and make sure we are preserving the life of the existing assets that haven't failed yet, while also doing the treatments needed for those roads that have unfortunately failed. If we don't do this, even more roads would become failed in the future.
We get more value for money from these preventive types of treatments, for example last year we covered over 65km with this treatment, but only 23km to renew the road. This was done with nearly a quarter of the funding that went into the renewing of roads.
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