Making High Street a safer place
Work to improve traffic flow and improve pedestrian safety has been carried out in Uckfield town centre.
The county council has installed SCOOT* [Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique] at traffic signals and added an all-red pedestrian phase.
A report produced by the county council's transport and environment department states: "This maximises the capacity at these junctions and assists pedestrian safety."
The report picks out the junctions of Bell Lane and the High Street and Framfield Road and the High Street as being the most congested, particularly at morning and evening peak times.
The county council has also commissioned consultants to look at other options and notes there is a "significant injury crash problem" in the town centre with 15 injury accidents during a three-year period.
The eventual aim is to try and deal with increased traffic and to improve safety. However, the county council will be unable to pay for any agreed scheme. It wants a pot of money to be built up by legal agreements with developers of projects that will generate more traffic.
*SCOOT is an established system to manage town centre traffic and can reduce delays by 20 per cent.
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