These pictures show the first completed section of a new programme of high friction surfacing being carried out by Island Roads.

Cowleaze Hill, the main Shanklin to Ventnor road, was the first to have the work undertaken.

Island Roads is laying new anti-skid surfacing or replacing worn sections at more than a dozen sites in a three-week programme which started this week.

Work will be done at night under either a road closure or with temporary traffic lights in operation.

Isle of Wight County Press: The new section at Cowleaze Hill.The new section at Cowleaze Hill. (Image: Newsquest)

Bright coloured high friction surfacing (HFS) is typically applied on the approaches to busy junctions, as pedestrian crossings or at sharp bends on roads with higher speed limits.

Besides Cowleaze, HFS will be laid at the following sites:

  • Blackwater Hollow on the bends between Bridleway 41 and Birchmoor Lane
  • Calbourne Road, Newport, on the approach to Carisbrooke
  • Merstone Lane, Godshill at the approach to Bohemia Corner
  • Pyle Street, Newport, at the approach to Drill Hall Road.
  • Culver Parade, Sandown at the pedestrian crossing outside Dinosaur Isle
  • Ventnor High Street junction with Madeira Road.
  • Marlborough Road, Ryde, at the junction with Somerset Road.
  • Berry Shute, Chillerton at the junction with Berry Lane
  • Cockleton Lane, Gurnard, at the junction with Hilton Road/Gurnard Pines
  • Whitwell Road, Ventnor, outside Ventnor Rugby Club
  • Ventnor Road at Apse Heath.

Isle of Wight County Press: Newly resurfaced road at Cowleaze Hill.Newly resurfaced road at Cowleaze Hill. (Image: Newsquest)