Both the Bath Chronicle and the Western Daily Press have included our Bathwick Zebra story this week (though I wasn’t too impressed with the WDP headline!).

Cllr Gerrish (Con, Keynsham N), the cabinet member responsible, is quoted: “I have instructed highways officers to undertake measurements of footfall to establish whether the point meets statutory criteria for a crossing. I must wait until I have the factural information that this is a well used crossing point before anything else can be done.”

I have posted two questiosn to him at the next cabinet meeting asking “Does the cabinet member agree that last week’s demonstration of 50 protesters on Bathwick Hill show a clear public demand for a zebra crossing over the canal bridge? Further, do the many accidents, including a fatality in 2006, show the high level of pedestrian risk in this location.” He has previously been uncommital answering these sort of questions in the past.