Sheffield’s Snake Pass set for £7.6m funding
The 23-mile route between Sheffield and Manchester will receive the money for safety improvements, following five deaths and 62 serious injuries between 2018-2023.
Funded by the government’s Safer Roads Fund, suggested work includes placing up to 10 speed cameras along the route; ‘road restraint’ safety barriers, to prevent motorcyclists sliding under barriers, to reduce potential injuries; and anti-skid friction surfacing at bends, to help improve braking distances.
Efforts to make the road safer for pedestrians could include improving the junction of the A57 and Manor Park Road in Glossop, to make it narrower and therefore quicker for people to cross, and a pedestrian crossing at the Dinting Vale viaduct.
The funding will be divided between Sheffield City Council and Derbyshire County Council, the latter of which will manage the delivery of the improvements.
The A57 is one of two routes between Sheffield and Manchester, and is used by more than 30,000 vehicles each week.
A public consultation will be carried out later this year.
Cllr Ben Miskell, chair of the transport, regeneration and climate committee, said: “The road is an incredibly important route both economically and for tourism between Sheffield and Manchester.
“It has always had a reputation as being a dangerous road to use and I welcome this funding as part of the project to make it safer.”
