Plan to spend £5.4m on city's transport approved

The transport plan includes 26 individual projects across Stoke-on-Trent

A plan to spend more than £5.4m on improving roads and transport across a city has been given the green light.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s local transport and active travel plan includes 26 projects to improve roads, footpaths and bridges.

As part of the scheme, traffic calming measures will be put in place outside six schools, while other plans include installing pedestrian crossings and tackling rat-run roads used by drivers.

The funding is made up of £2.1m from the active travel fund, £2m from the maintenance block and £1.3m from the potholes fund.

A report that went before a recent meeting of the council’s cabinet said: “The transport network is essential to almost every aspect of our daily lives.

“Very little happens without us needing to walk, cycle, use public transport or a private vehicle.”

Councillor Finlay Gordon-McCusker welcomed the plan as it was approved during the meeting on 26 March.

He said: “There are a number of really good schemes here to make the network more efficient and safer. Things like repairing bridges and making sure they’re maintained properly.

“This includes the bridge that connects Dividy Road to Eaton Park, without which people wouldn’t be able to get in or out of Eaton Park. So it’s really important that all this work goes ahead.”

This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations.