A49 Safety Under the Spotlight

Herefordshire Council has invited the Highways Agency to explain what it is doing to improve safety on the A49 through the County.

The Agency will respond to questions and concerns when it appears before a meeting of the Environment Scrutiny Committee, to be held in public on Monday, February 28, in the Council Chamber at Brockington.

A number of the questions were raised at a previous meeting of the committee – a meeting which the Highways Agency failed to attend.

The Agency will be asked these questions and many more at the forthcoming meeting when they will have the opportunity to set out their approach to managing the busy trunk roads in Herefordshire.  They will also summarise their recently published Route Management Strategy for the A49.

“We routinely hear of serious accidents along the A49 in Herefordshire. It’s a notorious road,” said Cllr John Goodwin, Chairman of the committee.

“Rarely does a month go by without either reading the headlines in the local press or hearing the distressing news on the local radio that another accident has occurred and someone is either seriously injured or has been killed.

“This is a concern we share with many people in the county and we owe it to them to bring pressure on the Agency responsible for the road to explain what measures they intend to put in place to cut the amount of accidents on this and other trunk roads,” added Cllr Goodwin.