Updates

We asked

Between Tuesday 19 July to Sunday 14 August 2022 Bristol City Council conducted an engagement survey asking about the proposed zebra crossing on St Luke’s Road.

The proposal is to install a new zebra crossing on St Luke’s Road. The proposal for the Zebra crossing is in response to local feedback about safety on St Luke’s Road and a request by the Area Committee for a formal pedestrian crossing between St Luke’s Roadsteps and Victoria Park. We are also aware that there has been feedback in the Mead Street development consultation about the safety of St Luke’s Road which we are currently reviewing. A zebra crossing will help make it safer for pedestrians to cross to the park.

The position of the railway bridge and bend on the road means the proposed location for the zebra crossing is about 27m south of St Luke’s Steps and the park entrance. We need to make sure that drivers and pedestrians have enough space to see each other when using the crossing, and, after much thought, this is the only feasible solution with the available funding.

You Said

A total of 162 completed responses were received from the survey. The headline findings are:

• 76% of respondents were people who use St Luke’s Road to get somewhere else
• 155 respondents walk along the road, 92 use a bike and 83 drive a car or van.
• Over 80% of respondents strongly agreed that there was a need to improve the safety of people crossing St Luke’s Road from the steps to the park
• Over 80% of respondents strongly agreed and agreed with the provision of a zebra crossing in the proposed location which is 27m south of St Luke’s Road steps and south of the park entrance
• 86 free text comments were received and 19 supported the proposal, 25 wanted the crossing in line with the desire line, 5 felt the crossing was not necessary and others commented on the speed of traffic and wanted the railway underpass improved. Others had questions about a possible new park entrance, the existing traffic signalised crossing and suggestions of full road closures in the area.

You can read the full report here.

We Did

The next stage will be to publish a Statutory Notice to advertise our intention to install a crossing in this location. This is a legal process and gives anyone the opportunity to raise a formal objection to the proposed crossing. If approved, the detailed design will then be undertaken to finalise the precise details of the design before a contractor can be appointed to undertake the work (potentially Spring 2023).