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Street scene manager Gordon Morris next to the new alligator teeth.

Long-awaited alligator teeth' barriers are ready to clamp their teeth around any vehicles trying to race through the Hanley Road car park as a short cut into Upton.

Residents and Upton Town Council have been calling for the barriers to be installed to stop cars leaving the car park into narrow New Street Lane for almost a year, after a previous set of traffic flow plates was damaged and their replacement proved ineffective.

Cllr Eric White hopes the barriers will stop people using the car park as a high-speed short cut into Upton from the Hanley Road.

"People have continued to drive very quickly through there in the last year, and without barriers I am sure that one day there would have been a head-on collision," he said.

Malvern Hills District Council's street scene manager is delighted that the much sought after alligator teeth are now in place.

"They are fully installed and they seem to be working," he said. "I have not had any complaints and they seem to be stopping people going out that way."

2:56pm Thursday 17th April 2008

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