A PETITION is calling for the council to install a new traffic light-controlled pedestrian crossing to make access easier to Earley train station.
It was handed in at the council meeting held on Thursday, November 17.
Cllr Mike Smith presented it on behalf of Jason Collins, who wants the safe passageway to be created on Wokingham Road between its junctions of Station Road and Kenton Road.
He argued that “only by making access to public transport as easy and as convenient as possible and safe will encourage more people out of their cars”.
While Woodley residents have a footbridge to help, this is not the case for those coming in the opposite direction.
“Earley and other station users have run the gauntlet of the broken road that is a 40mph speed limit,” Cllr Smith said, adding there were approximately four cars every four seconds at peak times, and he witnesses two near misses in 20 minutes at the location.
“There is a definite desire for this,” he concluded.
