A council has secured £600,000 of funding to improve road safety along a busy city centre route.
Brighton and Hove City Council will receive the money - from the Department for Transport’s safer roads fund - to make a key route in and out of the city safer for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists.
The money will be used to make improvements to the A2010 route between West Street and Old Shoreham Road, which includes Queens Road, Surrey Street, Terminus Road and Buckingham Place.
The road will also be improved from Bath Street to the Seven Dials roundabout and Dyke Road to the Old Shoreham Road junction.
The funding is part of a £47.5 million national investment which the government says will prevent more than 750 fatal and serious injuries over the next 20 years.
Transport Secretary Mark Harper: “We are investing £14.4 million to improve the safety of roads across the South East and this is the first crucial step to ensuring local councils have the support they need to keep everyone safe, while also reducing congestion and emissions.”
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The council will also contribute £60,000 with another £90,000 coming from Section 106 developer funding.
A large section of the route is one used by people travelling between Brighton Railway Station and the seafront, as well as the Churchill Square Shopping Centre.
The A2010 route between the seafront and Old Shoreham Road has been identified as an area of the city with the potential for serious injuries.
A large part of the funding will be improving the junction of Queen’s Road and North Road to address the safety issues for pedestrians waiting to cross.
This could include redesigning the junction, installing better traffic signals and pavement widening to make it safer to cross.
The fund could also consider introducing speed reduction measures at Terminus Road with other signing and lining improvements along the A2010.
Work is now underway on an initial design for the scheme which will be taken to the environment, transport and sustainability committee for approval.
If agreed, the council hopes work start early next year.
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