Boy takes 50-minute bus journey to school to avoid walking along danger road

HUNDREDS SIGN PETITION FOR PAVEMENT TO BE EXTENDED

- CHARLOTTE HALL

MORE than 200 residents are campaigning to tackle a road that's 'too dangerous to walk down.'

Bullcote Lane, connecting to Cop Road in Sholver, Oldham, only has a few short stretches of pavement even though it's a 'busy' road where locals frequently complain of speeding.

But despite several accidents and 'near misses' being reported on the 'hazardous' route, no safety measures have been added for almost a decade.

Now 230 locals have signed a petition to call on Oldham council to build a full-length pavement so children and commuters can walk to school and work safely.