RESIDENTS will be given a month to comment on plans for traffic-calming in the Greenway Street area of Darwen.
Councillors have been campaigning for such a scheme for several years and at a public meeting last November, residents said they believed road humps would be the best solution.
If there are no objections to road humps and 20mph zones, the scheme could be in place by the summer.
Coun Eileen Entwistle said: "I welcome this as it has been a long time coming. Everyone uses that road as a short-cut if there are any roadworks on the main road, and it is a heavily populated area.
"As soon as the Eccleshill link road got permission, I realised that Greenway would become a rat run.
Fellow ward councillor Derek Brindle said: "There have been eight casualties there in the last five years, one of which left someone seriously injured.
"All the little streets surrounding Greenway would become 20mph as well, and hopefully it would be up and running later in the year.
"If it saves one life, it is better than nothing."
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