But campaigners who wanted a new crossing installed outside Gilthill Primary School are set to be disappointed.
The work has been carried out on Gilt Hill after a long campaign led by Broxtowe councillors with Nottinghamshire Council highways officers.
Coun Philip Owen (Con), who represents Nuthall & Kimberley at County Hall, said: "It was like something from the moon's surface, and now it is like a billiard table.
"However, there is still work in progress.
"We need to establish a central reservation to enhance the safety of children crossing the road to go to school.
"We have secured a continuation of the school crossing patrol person, and now we need that central reservation.
"Additionally, there is still a significant amount of work to be done to identify where the utilities go with the road realignment.”
The need to improve safety for the school pupils has been the focus of a long campaign led by Coun Andy Cooper (Lab), who represents Kimberley on Broxtowe Council and who opposes the central reservation plan.
He said: "I've heard nothing from council, they said they are still waiting for reports from utility companies, so the campaign is at a bit of standstill at the moment.
"They don't want to put a crossing there, that's pretty obvious and people in the area are pretty resigned to that.
"I think cost has a lot to do with it, in my opinion.
"They have the lollipop attendant now, which does help, but I still don't think having a central reservation outside the school is the right option - you'll have people ending up stranded in the midde of the road."
But Coun Owen said: "The highways safety people feel that the central reservation would be the better option over a crossing and this has been looked at by the highway schools safety people, who are quite content with this.
"If you put a full blown crossing in, you have to build it to a certain specification, which means you need to have clearways either side of it, meaning residents on Gilt Hill wouldn't be able to park in front of their houses - and they've no off-street parking, so this would make life extremely difficult for them.
"One house would lose it's on-street disabled parking area and the bus stop would have to be relocated further down the hill towards the Ikea roundabout, so there a number of reasons for preferring a central reservation.
"The thing that's holding us up is the utilities, which is extremely annoying.
"Apparently, there are a number of utlities that would need to be relocated but we don't know the extent of that until they respond to us."