Widening one of the busiest roads in the county could start next spring, Kent’s highways chief has announced. It follows years of campaigning by local councillors to make the A228 at Kent Street, near Mereworth, safer for motorists, residents and other road users.
The scheme would see traffic lights installed 100m from each side of the Kent Street junction, widening two corners of the road where it crosses the busy single track A228 and creating two bus stops. Conservative Kent County Council (KCC) cabinet member for highways, Cllr Neil Baker, said discussions with a landowner are ongoing but he could not put a definite timescale or a cost on the work.
He added: “I wouldn’t like to put a timescale on these things because I don’t want to over-promise but, subject to positive discussions with the landowner who we need to get some land off to widen the road, we hope it will be happening in the spring of next year. I think it’s always difficult when you have third party landowners that you have to deal with.
"It’s not as though we are using compulsory purchase tactics because that would be a sledgehammer to crack a nut in this case. This is something we have been working with the local divisional member to try and deliver and that is what we are trying to reach a positive conclusion on.”
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