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A dangerous stretch of a main road near Market Rasen is in line for imaginable speed limit protection and relief innovations.
Five people, 3 motorcyclists, were killed on the A631 and 46 people, 14 cyclists, were seriously injured between 2015 and 2019.
Now, the road wants to be repaired and rebuilt between Market Rasen and North Willingham and at the A631/B1225 junction connecting Ludford with Horncastle, Caistor, Gainsborough and Market Rasen.
Average speed cameras will be installed and citizens will be consulted on reducing the speed limit, which lately begins at 30 mph at Market Rasen, emerging at 40 mph just after Aston School and 60 mph in a time after the Jaguar ShowRoom, towards Willingham Woods.
Road deaths occur with Craig Beasley, 28, from Oxfordshire, who was travelling to Willingham Woods, a popular gathering place for cycling and car enthusiasts, along the A631 in August 2017 when he collided with a taxi travelling in the opposite direction behind his bike. slid under him.
And two other people were seriously injured in a twist of fate involving a van and minibus at the Ludford crossing in June last year.
Councilman Stephen Bunney, who represents Market Rasen at the City Council and the West Lindsey District Council, said protection was long needed.
He said: “I’ve lived here for 26 years and I’d say there’s been a death on the A631 in a few years, that’s a terrible record.
“We’ve been campaigning to restrict speed at Market Rasen, especially near school, for some time.
“We would like to increase the additional limit of 30 mph in the forest to 30 mph or 40 mph and, in the long run, we would even like the speed limit to be reduced to 20 mph in the city center.
“There will be network speed tracking systems at Market Rasen, Middle Rasen, West Rasen and North Willingham.
“Road protection works are welcome, but you will also have to apply them.”
Work to update the worn sections of the A631 between Market Rasen and North Willingham begins on Monday, August 24 and is expected to last 12 weeks.
This will be night closures on the A631 from 19:30 to 6:00 from Monday to Friday.
The detour to the Willingham Woods component of the night locks will be the B1202 to Wragby/A157/B1225/A631, and vice versa.
Once completed at Willingham Woods, a two-week night closure separately from the A631/B1225 junction will be possible to allow for road reconstruction.
The forwarding direction for southbound traffic on the B1225 will be B1203/B1202/A157/B1225, and vice versa. For traffic westbound of the A631, the detour will be A157/B1202/A631 and vice versa.
A 40 mph transitority speed limit will be set on the project’s A631, as well as transit lighting devices for transit hours of transitority sunlight as needed.
Councilman Richard Davies, an executive member of Highways, said: “Accidents on the A631 between Market Rasen and North Willingham are rare, so we’re rebuilding a 3.7km segment of the road to make it safer for drivers.
“This will involve cutting existing cracks or road wear, painting new white lines and placing a new asphalt that will stick.
“We will do everything we can to reduce disruptions during the project by adding overnight planning paints to make the effect on road users limited.”
Residents of the closed segment will be maintained whenever possible. However, there may be times when paint jobs are being done, which will prevent cars from driving around the site.
In addition, access to Market Rasen Racecourse and Market Rasen Golf Club will also be maintained via Legsby Road.
Cllr Davies added: “This program is a component of the broader program of the Central Government Safer Roads Fund to protect some of the county’s riskiesl roads, of which we earned 4.6 million pounds in investments in 2018.
“In addition to repairing this segment of the A631, we will also increase the width of the road and install new road markings, as well as tips to reduce the speed limit.
“The investment has also been won by the installation of medium radars and reactive panels.
“Among the other county roads designed to protect over the next two years is the A631 between Bishop Bridge and Middle Rasen.
“In this section we will seek to lower the existing speed limit, the resistance to sliding the track, install rough stripes on the appearance of the track and protect the turns along the track.
“We will also paint with North Lincolnshire Council for protection on the A1084 between Caistor and Brigg and with North East Lincolnshire Council on the A18 between the A16 and the county border.”
The Ministry of Transport’s Ministry of Transport’s safer road fund will be used to protect 50 of the riskiesr stretches of roads controlled by the country’s city council, as known through the Road Safety Foundation and the RAC Foundation in 2016.