SCHOOLCHILDREN have pleaded with a councillor to ensure a pedestrian crossing is built across an “extremely dangerous” road into Aberystwyth.

Penparcau councillor Lorrae Jones-Southgate is campaigning for a pedestrian crossing on the A487 at Southgate, where two busy community facilities, Neuadd Goffa and St Anne’s Church, sit on opposite sides of the road.

Cllr Jones-Southgate claims residents, particularly schoolchildren at nearby Ysgol Llwyn yr Eos primary school, and pensioners, many of whom use both facilities on a daily basis, are risking their lives by crossing the road, which currently only has a low-curbed pedestrian refuge for safe crossing.

The urgency of the situation was highlighted recently, Cllr Jones-Southgate said, when the primary school concert, held at St Anne’s Church, meant hundreds of schoolchildren having to cross the road here.

“This is an extremely dangerous place to cross the road,” Cllr Jones-Southgate told the Cambrian News.

“There has been an increase in usage of both St Anne’s Church and Neuadd Goffa. It was identified that just for the Christmas concert, over 200 children had to cross the road at this location, some of them with severe difficulties.”

Cllr Jones-Southgate is calling for a pelican crossing — with traffic lights, zig-zag lines and a pedestrian button system — to be introduced, following the success of another such crossing in Penparcau.

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