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Islington Tribune - by JAMIE WELHAM
Published: 21 September 2007

£5m facelift for streets

STREETS and pavements in Islington are to be given a £5million makeover.
The money will be spent on maintenance, improving road safety and promoting cycling.
Extra cash from the sale of the council’s commercial property portfolio means work on 90 streets earmarked for an upgrade can start straight away.
Councillor Lucy Watt, Islington Council’s Lib Dem executive member for environment, said: “We’ve heard residents’ calls for greener, cleaner and safer streets. So we’re making an investment in roads and pavements that people will appreciate, whether they are pedestrians, cyclists or motorists.
“It’s more than resurfacing roads and replacing cracked paving. We’ll be de-cluttering pavements, replacing damaged signage, painting railings, improving highway drainage to prevent local flooding and we’ll be planting trees.”
Streets that have already benefited from improvements include Junction Road, York Way, St John’s Way, Gallia Road and Nugent Road.

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