SAFETY measures are to be introduced at a notorious traffic blackspot.

The Fishpool area of Bury is to get a massive £100,000 overhaul with the aim of reducing accidents.

Between 1994 and 1996 there were 50 injury accidents in the area - one fatal, five serious, and 14 involving children.

Those statistics persuaded Bury Council's traffic and engineering sub-committee to approve the Fishpool Area Urban Safety Scheme at a meeting on Monday, June 1.

Speeding motorists using Gigg Lane as a rat-run will be thwarted by the introduction of road humps.

Speed cushions and parking bays are just some of the other measures which will reduce traffic problems.

Proposals include..

Road humps on Richmond Street and Brierley Street.

Twin speed cushions at the splitter islands on both approaches to the bend on Parkhills Road.

A prohibition of driving order at Nelson Street at its junction with Wellington Road.

A parking bay on Wellington Road to improve visibility for cars emerging from side streets.

The residents themselves have helped to shape the proposals. Almost 200 people attended an exhibition of the planned scheme last October.

The only amendment to the original plan will be the absence of a speed table on Market Street.

Bus operators complained that this would affect their low-floored buses, which carry children in prams and wheel-chair users.

Instead, there will now be twin speed cushions incorporating cycle lanes and splitter islands.

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