NEW BRIGG ZEBRA CROSSING PROPOSED TO AID ROAD SAFETY

Brigg is in line for an additional pedestrian crossing facility on the very busy A18.
The new aid to road safety will be a black and white striped zebra crossing, and the intended location is close to where Bridge Street joins Ancholme Way.
Coun Rob Waltham, who is the Leader of North Lincolnshire Council, informed Brigg Town Council's July meeting held last night (Tuesday, July 27) that the highway authority is looking to install such a crossing.
We gather that it will have modern LED lighting rather than the once familiar yellow Belisha beacons.
Dozens of new domestic properties are currently being built off Bridge Street, which is already very well-used by pedestrians heading for, and returning from, the town centre. The new crossing will also assist people from this part of the town in accessing the Riverside Surgery and the Tesco store.
Currently there are traffic islands available on this section of the A18.
Brigg Blog hopes to obtain a technical drawing/graphic in the near future which will help people to visualise the exact location proposed for the new zebra.
Bridge Street featured an old-style zebra crossing for decades before the A18 was re-routed along newly-built Ancholme Way in the early 1990s. Our archive picture below shows the old zebra crossing circa 1971 with its tall beacons either side.