Video monitors are set to be installed at a well-used Bolton junction as part of an ongoing traffic scheme.

The new traffic scheme was installed on Chorley Old Road at the junction with Moorside Avenue and at New Hall Lane in February this year and has included four sets of traffic lights to replace a zebra crossing.

This proved to be controversial with road users and residents and earlier this month Bolton Council heard how video monitors will be installed to help traffic officials monitor how the junction is being used.

Bolton Council cabinet member for planning, housing and highways Cllr Hamid Khurram said: “Those cameras will provide evidence of use now that the installation has been operating for six months and traffic and pedestrian patterns will likely have normalised.”

He added: “The results of this review are expected to be available by the end of this year or the early part of next year and will enable a fully informed decision to be made about the future of the installations.”

The Bolton News: Near the junction of Moorside Avenue Near the junction of Moorside Avenue (Image: Newsquest)

The new traffic lights were installed by Transport for Greater Manchester and Cllr Khurram said that the urban traffic control unit at TfGM was gathering data from the system.

Since the new installation was put up, concerns were raised about how confusion at the junction could lead to potential accidents, especially when drivers are coming out of Moorside Avenue unaware that residents are then crossing on Chorley Old Road.

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In July of this year Cllr Roger Hayes, of Smithills, said that a survey carried out in the area which found that most of the 90 respondents said that conditions on the road had worsened since before the scheme was introduced.

Cllr Khurram had been responding to a question put at a full meeting of Bolton Council by Cllr Garry Veevers, also of Smithills.

Cllr Veevers referred to the widespread concerns sparked amongst road users  on Chorley Old Road and asked when ward members like him were likely to see the results of a review into it and whether it would be possible to make changes to it based on this review.