Over the spring and summer, the County Council will be carrying out its annual programme of surface dressing works (a list for East Cambridgeshire is below).  This process seals the road surface to protect it from frost damage and also increases its skid resistance making it safer for drivers.

As part of the preparation for this, council officers have reviewed the road markings and road studs at each of the sites where work is to be done.

In some cases these do not comply with the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002 and The Traffic Signs Manual.  This can mean
too many markings or incorrect markings. Sometimes the markings have not caught up with changes to things like speed limits. And in some cases the regulations themselves have changed.

This means that after the surface dressing process has been completed, some road markings and studs will not be replaced, and in some places there will be additional ones.

This spring and summer’s programme will include:

• Bottisham: Beachwood Avenue
• Burwell: Hythe Close
• Coveney: Jerusalem Drove
• Dullingham: Upend Road
• Ely: Buckingham Drive, Canterbury Avenue, Chapel Street, Church Lane, Lansdowne Close, Longfields, Mayfield Close, Norfolk Road, The Chase, Yorke Way
• Haddenham: High Street
• Kirtling: Lidgate Road, Upend Road
• Littleport: Croft Park Road, Parsons Lane, Victoria Street
• Mepal: Brangehill Lane
• Pymoor: Pymoor Common
• Stetchworth: Parkside
• Sutton: Garden Close, Lawn Lane, Church Lane
• Wilburton: Haddenham Road, West End
• Woodditton: Court Barns, Duchess Drive