Much needed road safety improvements outside a local accident hot spot in Scarisbrick will soon be made after Scarisbrick Hall School revealed plans to spend around £80,000 on a new exit.

The current entrance/exit has been the scene of many a crash and many more near misses due to its proximity to a semi blind bend on the busy A570.

A number of trees have now been felled prior to the work taking place - the new improvements can't come soon enough think locals.

I suggested the exit from Scarisbrick Hall School be located about 200 yards towards the Ormskirk direction nearly 2 years ago,on a previous report on here about the dangers of vehicles driving out of the entrance/exit opposite Gorsuch Lane,then they go and spend £250,000+ on road markings which is TREBLE the cost for this NEW Exit,and the road markings have virtually made the exiting of vehicles NO safer than it was before,when £160,000 of the spent amount could have been SAVED on this NEW exit that they are now going to put in.Talk about wasting money on something when the obvious should have been done in the first instance.

The school are paying not the Council.

Originally Posted by mumstheword

The school are paying not the Council.

I never mentioned the council,as I know it was LCC that put the new road markings in,but they could have saved the money from doing it if the WHOLE Entrance,and the Exit was moved further towards the Ormskirk direction BEFORE they went ahead,as this situation has been like this now for well over 40+ years,and the volume of traffic now is considerably more,and the school should have thought about moving this hazard further along ages ago.

Another option would have been for the school and the Lancashire Council,to collectively buy some of the land opposite the main entrance/exit,at the end of Gorsuch Lane and Southport Rd,as there then would have been plenty of room for a good sized roundabout to have been put in ? Using the small plot of land where nothing seems to have grown on there for decades,and just full of gorse and weeds most of the time.

Why not just use the rear entrance onto Hall Road?