Road safety is to be improved for hundreds more children and their families in streets around Bilston Nursery School.
Following consultation with the local community the latest City of Wolverhampton Council Safer Routes to School project will include a safe school zone on Wolverhampton Street along with improved signs, pedestrian refuges on the High Street in Bilston and 20mph limits on surrounding roads.
It will make it safer for families to leave the car behind and walk or cycle to and from the nursery school.
This will help ease congestion and parking issues at the gates, encouraging active healthier lifestyles and improving air quality.
Works will begin on Monday 15 September and are expected to finish on 26 September, weather permitting. The majority of work will take place at night, between 7pm and 5am, and some temporary traffic signals and lane closures will be required.
A consultation was held and executive headteacher at Bilston Nursery School, Emma Smith, is among those who have welcomed the plans. She said: “I am so pleased to know that these measures are going to be in place helping to keep my pupils safe.”
The City of Wolverhampton Council’s Cabinet Member for City Transport Councillor Qaiser Azeem said: “Road safety is of the utmost importance to the council, particularly where children are walking to schools and nurseries in large numbers.
“This area connects to a busy high street with shops on both sides and lots of pedestrians crossing all the time. Reducing speeds on approach ensures drivers are travelling at a safer speed as they reach this point.
“This will help protect children and others on their daily journey prioritising safer, healthier, and more sustainable neighbourhoods.”