Stainton Way – Connecting better to The King’s Academy and the Parkway Centre

Closing Date: 31st July 2025

Location: Middlesbrough

Travel

Connecting into The King’s Academy and the Parkway Shopping Centre.

Buses often get held up on Stainton Way, causing traffic delays. Every day, more than 1,300 students travel to The King’s Academy, and we want to make it safer and easier for them to get to school, especially when crossing the road. Stainton Way via Dalby Way is also the entry to the Parkway Shopping Centre, a busy place with shops, leisure facilities and community services. This brings even more traffic to this area, with lots of people using this route every day.

To improve safety and give people more travel choices, our plans propose to:

Make taking the bus more convenient, by:

  • Installing traffic signals at the Dalby Way roundabout by the entrance of the Parkway Shopping Centre

Make walking, wheeling and cycling safer and easier by:

  • Creating a separated, two-way, wider and safer walking, wheeling (such as using a wheelchair) and cycling route from King’s Academy to Dalby Way. This will provide a safer path to the Parkway Shopping Centre by separating people walking, cycling and using the road.
  • Widening pavements to give students a safer route to school at The King’s Academy from Stainton Way.
  • Connecting onward to the National Cycle Network (Route 65) to connect into Middlesbrough and Coulby Newham.

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Current Issues

It is difficult for people to walk or cycle on Stainton Way as there is no pavement or cycle track between The King’s Academy and Dalby Way. This makes it challenging for students and families without a car to get around and leads to more people driving, which adds to congestion.

We want to create a safer route for students walking to The King’s Academy and for those without a car who want to access Parkway Shopping Centre.

Opportunities

Improvements to this route will allow more people that live in these areas to consider walking, wheeling or cycling especially on shorter journeys.  Bus improvements will also be made allowing for buses to be more reliable especially during busier times

Key opportunities to improve this route include:

  • Separate areas for walking, cycling and driving keeping all road users safe
  • Wider pavements and safer road crossings
  • More space for walking, wheeling and cycling through separated, two-way paths.
  • Giving people a quality routes to choose to walk, wheel or cycle safely to school, shopping or where they need to go, especially on shorter journeys.

Benefits

These changes will make it easier and safer to get to King’s Academy and Parkway Shopping Centre, give people more transport choices and encourage healthier ways to travel, like walking, wheeling and cycling.  Importantly, offering people more travel choices will reduce traffic and pollution, especially during peak times.

Have Your Say!

We want to hear your ideas! What would make your journey better along this proposed route? Please look at our plans here and give us your ideas by taking this short survey.

There are three ways to have your say:

  • Join us at a public event on 15 July 12-6 pm in the Parkway Shopping Centre in front of the entrance of Home Bargains. We will be in the area shown by the green dot below. The address is; Parkway Shopping Centre, Dalby Way, Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough TS8 0TJ.

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Timeline

Stage 1 - Sharing ambitions and vision for transport improvements across Tees Valley. Summer 2023
Stage 2 - Public engagement looking at key issues and opportunities around potential transport solutions. Summer 2025
Stage 3 - Specific consultations after transport plans are further developed with public feedback taken onboard.

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