Work to install average speed cameras on a shortened section of the A583 between Blackpool and Preston is due to start soon – more than a month late.
High-tech speed cameras are being installed on two of the Fylde’s most dangerous roads
Average speed camera scheme shortened
Cameras will be placed on a three-mile stretch of the 50mph route between the Wrea Green roundabout and Clifton, on the outskirts of Preston.
It had initally due to be a longer section from Peel corner – taking in the anti-fracking site at Little Plumpton – but was reduced after accident figures were analysed.
Work on the shortened section is now set to take place from the end of next month with a view to being completed by early in the new year.
It had been due to start this month intially.
The original eight-mile section was the longest single stretch of average speed enforcement planned for the county as part of a series of schemes across Lancashire.
A spokesman for Lancashire Police said: “The A583 was always scheduled to be the last site. The fracking hasn’t delayed the installation but there has been a little slippage with the project which has impacted upon the timescales for subsequent sites.”
Other sites
A6 - London Road, Preston
A588 - Head Dyke Lane, over Wyre
A565 - Southport New Road
B6232 - Grane Road
A682 - Gisburn Road
A59 - Brockholes Brow
Some schemes are already operational while others are set to be completed in next few months