Sudbury's much needed western relief road, a road needed to protect the historic core, to reduce congestion and volume of traffic and more importantly make our roads safer so that a real attempt to promote cycling and walking has basically been binned to the distant future. Never mind the housing growth that Sudbury will get with the Chilton Woods development and others.
Last night, at the Town Hall, Suuffolk County Council told us that:
1. the scheme came 96 out of 98 in the East of England.
2. at present road building rates, it would take nearly a century to clear those schemes!
I asked Suffolk what traffic management had been implemented and what their future plans were if the relief road is a distant hope. When the relief road was turned down before, the Labour government said that interim traffic management schemes had to be tried to show need for a bypass.
Well, in the last 4 years of the Conservatives running Suffolk, nothing has been implemented and the 1 scheme (Belle Vue junction) has been downgraded and no plans were revealed to deal with traffic in the future.
To the credit of the Sudbury Society, who organised this meeting, another will be organised to discuss interim traffic management measures.
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