Wednesday night I chaired a Newport Town Management Committee-organised public meeting on traffic. Yes, I rarely get an easy life !
Despite all the outrage about the proposed school changes, Newport residents still have enough anger in them about traffic issues to turn out in good numbers. We had about 100 people at the meeting.
Although Newport TMC had wanted to try and focus on longer term options for traffic management in Newport for at least part of the meeting, quite understandably residents wanted to continue discussing the Council's unpopular decision to reverse the traffic direction in Trafalgar Road to a westerly direction and the devastating effect that has had on a number of residential roads around Newport. Out of 100 people at the meeting ONE person expressed support for that change and even the councillor for Brighstone supported a reversal.
The Cabinet member for Transport came along to the meeting and maybe, just maybe, he will at last have got the message from the people, that I and other have been trying to get across to him for the last 3 months. If he doesn't, I can't help feeling that it is deliberate.
2 comments:
Well done Geoff. The new system is awful and it's about the fifth scheme in recent memory. If the pedestrianise the High St, as they should for safety and environmental reasons where will the traffic go? We need a Newport by pass. Fat chance of getting the money from London thou eh?
Sorry I couldn't make it as I was preparing for the Medina Schools reorg meeting the next day.
I have always thought there was something fishy about the Trafalger Road temp Order. What we don't want is divide and rule which almost happened after the Chapel Street saga, united action agin the council traffic bods is what is needed.
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