The Zebras is a well-known nickname for Brigg Town Football Club but another black and white zebra in the town is slowly losing its stripes.
Brigg's only surviving zebra crossing - there used to be four - is still doing valued pedestrian safety work on Bigby Road/Street near Dent's Nisa Local shop, Hewson House and the original Post Office.
However, the white markings on the highway have worn away and are in need of a repaint.
During the Coronavirus emergency of the past year, North Lincolnshire Council - the local highway authority - has faced various challenges and many people might see the repainting of a zebra crossing as being a long way way down the list of jobs to be undertaken.
But if it is possible to send out a line marking crew in the next few weeks, could these workers also be asked to look at the footpath markings along Wrawby Road?
The Brigg-Wrawby route became Brigg's first joint cycle-way/footpath many years ago, but the white painted markings indicating which half of the path is for pedestrians and which is for riders have worn away in various places.
It there was an unfortunate collision between someone on foot and a bike rider, might the absence of clear markings be called into question?
When the A18 still followed its original route through Brigg town centre, there were zebra crossings near East Park, on Wrawby Street close to the Cross Street junction and on Bridge Street. The new alignment/by-pass saw button-controlled pelican crossings with traffic lights installed.
These are a better design because a red light means drivers must stop, whereas drivers are supposed to stop at zebra crossings if pedestrians are waiting.
The zebra crossing near the old Post Office still has two historic Belisha Beacons - the orange lollipop-shaped lights, named after a politician who was Minister of Transport in the 1930s when many of these were installed as the first 'zebras' were introduced on busy roads across the UK to improve pedestrian safety.
Bigby Street, for many decades, formed part of the main A18 (westbound) towards Scunthorpe via the Market Place and the County Bridge until the 1990s; today it is less busy than it was - the only 'through' destination being Cadney via Elwes Street. However, it still sees a fair amount of internal traffic, particularly drivers heading along Cross Street on the one-way system which serves the eastern end of the town centre.
