NEW traffic calming measures will be installed on two Bradford roads where dozens of people have been injured.

But concerns have been raised at the slow pace at which such road safety schemes are implemented.

New safer roads schemes for the Bradford West constituency in the coming year will include work to Legrams Lane and Lumb Lane.

The work on Legrams Lane will involve new traffic calming measures between Ingelby Road and Greyhound Drive, including a pedestrian refuge at an existing puffin crossing. The work is expected to cost £48,000.

The Lumb Lane works will see existing traffic calming extended from Green Lane to Westgate, and will cost £40,000.

The rest of the annual budget of £135,000 for the constituency is being spent on traffic orders across the constituency (£21,000), dropped kerbs and mobility access works (£6,000), blue badge parking spaces (£15,000) and various traffic surveys (£5,000).

But dozens of other highway safety schemes will have to remain on the waiting list in the hope they will be funded in future years.

Councillor Margaret Alipoor (Lab, Clayton and Fairweather Green) questioned why a scheme to introduce traffic calming on Vine Terrace West, first proposed in 2015, was still not getting any funding.

Bradford Council recently received a petition from residents of Vine Terrace West, off Thornton Road and next to Crossley Hall Primary School, who called for something to be done to stop speeding and dangerous driving on the street.

Cllr Alipoor added: “There is lots of traffic going down that road travelling at speed. It is an accident waiting to happen.

“We’ve been waiting since 2015 – we’re now in 2022.”

Andrew Smith Principal Engineer, said: “We only have a budget this year of £135,000. The waiting list of projects is something like £2m. We’ll never have enough funding to address the full list of requests.

“We have to prioritise roads where there are the highest numbers of casualties.”

Members were told that on Legrams Lane there had been 13 crashes in the past five years, leading to 17 casualties.

On Lumb Lane, there had been 13 crashes and 16 casualties.

Some of the planned works, including traffic calming on Edmund Street and replacing grass verges on Hazelhurst Brow with laybys, were first proposed in 2010.

Mr Smith said: “The two schemes that are getting priority are on streets with a substantial number of casualties – that is why we have to prioritise them.”

The meeting heard that the Vine Terrace West petition would be discussed at a future meeting.