Wednesday 10 December 2008

chance of a western bypass?

The announcement that nearly 100 road schemes across the East of England are bidding for just over half a billion pounds upto 2019means that we will be lucky to get our much needed relief road.
Suffolk County Council may have put it on a list but alongside 9 other Suffolk schemes means the odds are small.
At the same time, Suffolk have struggled to do any traffic management in the town. This was a precursor to getting a bypass. BUT here is the sting in the tail. If we are unlikely to get a bypass for another 10+ years minimum then what traffic management are they going to put in to deal with the traffic growth with existing housing development or any other ones? What are your plans Conservatives at Suffolk? Do you have any? Or as your tactic of promising every market town that needed a bypass knowing full well the funding wouldn't be there so you could blame the Government for it, been found out?
Why not be honest with communities and bid for what is actually achievable rather than being disingenuous. We need some solutions to our traffic, a bypass would help us to make roads safer to promote cycling and walking but some radical, new ideas are needed in the mean time?

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