I agree that strategy 5 is ludicrous. I'm referring to your article
on Access to Hastings Multi-modal study "John dubs A21 plan ludicrous"
with a picture of the exhibition strategy 5 and a representative
standing
by it. Only the dirtiest vision of the future has been promoted
locally,
but that's not the only view. A few years ago the Leader gave good
coverage
to concerns people like myself have about a new section of trunk road
at
Castle Hill. Our concerns are visual intrusion, noise carried across
the
valley between, poor air quality in Longfield Road, and harm to the
natural
environment. The study's strategies are either old grandiose road
building
schemes or the widening of the A21 through villages that has already
occurred
since. All strategies include measures on the A26, are these the same
as
the bus and cycle lanes on the A26. How sustainable are the strategies?
I would have liked a strategy with a widened for dual working of the
Tunbridge
Wells Central south east tunnel, restoration of the rail line Tunbridge
Wells to Lewes, A local transport authority, to make the buses arrive
and
on time. Perhaps traffic lights at Longfield Road /A21 junction give
everyone
a fair turn? People in Tunbridge Wells wish traffic moderation and to
that
end, they support public transport, and presumably non-transport
alternative
solutions, what ever there view of trunk road building. Readers may be
minded to make comments to the study and their MP's.
Yours faithfully
Andrew Lohmann
Stop the Road (A21)
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