Park Safety Improvements Planned
Good news today, with a promise from the Council that we’ll get some much-needed additional safety barriers outside St Mary’s Park in the next couple of weeks, just in time for the peak summer holiday season.
Since the re-modelling of the junction at St Ann’s Road outside the park, the gate is now much more aligned to the crossing, and the only thing preventing a hyperactive child flinging himself into the path of an oncoming Range Rover is a single small barrier. Given the ever-rising obesity numbers, several of the youngsters may soon be wider than the barrier itself, and so I have been asking for additional protection for some time, along with a local resident who has been prodding me on the subject too.
And now the Council say that we can have it. Apparently there will be two or three extra barriers there soon, which will make the whole place lots safer, and minimize the angst which I suffer every time I drive past there half expecting a tragedy to occur.
All of which is good news for me and for local children, although bad news for those hand car wash places that are springing up everywhere.
Tonight I am going to see a band at the Manchester Apoloo, in an homage to my youth. I will probably complain that it is too loud, and suffer from tinnitus-like symptoms until a week next Tuesday. But it beats staying in.
Rick
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