Update on signing in Burton & Milepost Check

Our geographic position means our area covers not only parts of Derbyshire but also Leicestershire and East Staffordshire, which covers Burton-on-Trent.  Whilst the traffic in Burton crawls around the town due to the roadworks, a small project is currently taking place to improve signing in Burton on Trent.

National Cycle Network (NCN) 63 is currently signed from the Derbyshire border in Stanton through to the junction of New Street and Orchard Street in Burton, then the signing stops.

We feel it is important to give our routes a definitive start and end so we debated whether to sign the route to Burton Station or to NCN64 by the Trent and Mersey Canal at Shobnall.  In the end we have chosen the latter option, with links to and from the railway station.

These links were trialled on a risk assessment ride and the preferred route was to use Milton Street rather than Mosley Street due to better visibility at the turn in point.

There are still a few signs to be replaced, but the project is nearly finished.  Once this is done we will contact the mapping department to ensure that the online mapping function is updated.

There are some pictures below to indicate some of the new signing along with photos of the 2 mileposts that have to be checked every 2 years.

For more on mileposts, see the below link on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cycle_Network#Mileposts