southbristolvoice
November 2019 November 2019
southbristolvoice
No. 54
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‘An accident waiting to happen’ A ‘dangerous’ walkway stretching under St Luke’s Road railway bridge is an ‘accident waiting to happen’, says a local dad who has launched a petition calling for safety improvements. There are two walkways under the rail bridge. However, the railings running along the pavement nearest to Victoria Park stop halfway through the underpass, which Knowle resident Kevin Lindegaard says leaves pedestrians vulnerable to traffic – particularly school children. Mr Lindegaard, who worries for the safety of his daughter who uses St Luke’s Road to get to and from St Mary Redcliffe and Temple school, like hundreds of other students, also says that despite the lights recently being cleaned and repaired by the council - the walkway is still “too dim”, and with vehicles regularly speeding along this stretch of road, an accident is waiting to happen. The biomass energy consultant says that the footway
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Local resident and father Kevin Lindegaard is calling for the railings to be extended under the bridge in St Luke’s Road
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