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Published:
February 21, 2008
£64m
roads investment won't include Burnham's Foley Parkway
 A
£64 million injection of money into Somerset's highways
and transport infrastructure was approved by the County Council
on Wednesday (February 20th), but there was disappointment that
Burnham's Frank Foley Parkway will not be completed with the funding.
County
Councillors agreed their budget for the next year, which will
enable improvements across the county. The projects form part
of a £64 million programme over the next three years, including
£47.9 million on priority improvements included in the Local
Transport Plan, £12.7 million on road maintenance, £1.6
million on replacement traffic signals and £2.1 million
on replacement street lighting.
In
the Burnham area, the plans include the possible creation of a
one-way system in Highbridge, and road safety improvements along
the A38 but the half-completed Frank Foley Parkway near Burnham's
Tesco estate is not on the list of priorities.
"The
Frank Foley Parkway will not be completed using this funding,"
confirmed county council spokeswoman Jan Hookings to Burnham-On-Sea.com.
She
added: "We have identified Burnham-On-Sea as a high priority
area to improve accessibility to basic services, particularly
healthcare and hospitals and we are currently working with partners
such as the NHS to investigate this."
"The
Council may use some of this funding to put in place improvements
arising from the accessibility study if suitable schemes are identified."
Our
photo shows the northern end of the half-completed Frank Foley
Parkway in Burnham-On-Sea
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