Faded white lines on a busy zebra crossing in Wisbech are to be re-painted after eight months of what a councillor has said had become a potential death trap.
The crossing in Churchill Road, that takes pedestrians from the Horsefair shopping centre to the garage on the other side, is to see the lines re-instated by county council workers on Friday August 26.
“With the lines faded, motorists new to the area had no idea it was a crossing point and people have been reporting near misses for months, said councillor Paul Clapp.
“I’m delighted it’s being repainted but it should never have got that bad in the first place.
“I’ve nearly been squashed there countless times and I know of plenty others in the same situation. It was like a death trap.”
He added: “It’s all down to Government cuts slowing down essential work such as this.”
Other work being carried out on the same day includes a keep clear sign being re-instated in Norwich road at the junction with Kennedy Court and white line painting in Wisbech North.
Councillor Virginia Bucknor said “The crossing is in a terrible condition but in addition it is very poorly designed for how busy that roundabout is now.
“It was put there 30 years ago when Wisbech didn’t have half the traffic of today.
“The town has gone from a population of 20,000 to more than 44,000 yet the highways infrastructure has been neglected for decades and cannot cope.”
A pedestrian trying to cross in 2016 was a very different story to one crossing thirty years ago due to traffic volume, she added.
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