More thoughts on traffic on the A6
Dear Editor,
Reading last month’s issue, peak traffic again featured – with a bypass quietly offered as the solution, again. One found oneself raising an eyebrow.
The pelican crossing, built too far up the A6, now needs relocating by 100 metres, a relevant and plausible adjustment. When installed, Parliament had treated the A6 as a road the community crossed, linking Harcourt and Beauchamp, not something to be bypassed.
Further analysis and benchmarking of your published figures suggested traffic is overwhelmingly local private cars, hardly unusual for an English A-road, with congestion largely confined to peak hours. A bypass may remove lorries, but not local journeys.
To address such limited delay with permanent infrastructure, countryside loss and harm to village trade seems an extravagant response, particularly when schools, the NHS, social care and public transport face far more urgent need.
DWS.
Traffic on A6-Writing to Neil O’Brien MP
