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Re: The New Abingdon Road Layout

Posted By: Troller
Date: 3 May 2007 at 19:49

>The ABingdon Innefficient Traffic System
> ----------------------------------------
> · reduce the reliance on motorised traffic in general
> Not everyone lives in walking or even cycling distance of town, I pay road
> tax, why shouldnt I be able to use my car.
> · remove all but essential traffic from the town centre
> What halfwit in their right mind decides to drive into Abingdon town
> centre if its not essential to go there?!
> · promote the use of public transport for journeys both within the town
> and to other destinations
> Even if in my village there actually was bus which turned up once in a
> while, what would convince me to get on an unairconditioned hot , dirty,
> smelly tin can full of screaming children and verbally dieritic teenage
> girls playing "music" on their phones??? More to the point, why would I
> want to make a 10 minute journey in 20 minutes?
> · promote safer, more pleasant and more convenient conditions for
> pedestrians and cyclists
> Firstly, lets use Cowley Road as an example. This street is a 20 limit and
> semi pedestianised with lots of pretty colours on the roads and paths, and
> what do we have? Complete complaceny of pedestrians. Cowley Road is a free
> for all where it is perfectly socially acceptable to wander out in front
> of any car and assume it will stop, and by god if you are driving and you
> don't see the parasites expect to be hauled before the local magistrates
> court. Let me assure anyone reading this that when the 20 limit comes to
> Abingdon, traffic allowing, I will endevour to at drive at at least 40
> through the town centre at every opportunity.
> As for cyclists convenience, lets talk about Audlett Drive. A nice wide
> 40(ish) limit designed for traffic to pass efficiently round the outskirts
> of town. Also on this nice efficient road is a nice efficient cycle path.
> So why and I forever braking for and weaving around smarmy cyclists
> causing unnecessary obstruction?!! And yes, I know cyclist are legally
> entitled to cycle on the road, but to use the road when there is a
> perfectly good cycle path (which I have used on many occasions is an
> antisocial act! Many cyclists in Abingdon clearly have no regard for my
> convenience and safety as a driver.
> · improve accessibility to facilities, particularly for non-car users and
> those whose mobility is impaired
> And this is achieved by halfing road capactity???
> · promote road safety and reduce the number and severity of road
> casualities
> See rant about Cowley Road. Also, I have heard of no serious accidents in
> Abingdon town centre in the whole time I have lived in this area (all my
> life)
> · promote, and where appropriate, establish the efficient management and
> operation of all types of traffic and related activity, including parking
> HAHAHAHAHA! Efficient, Britain? No such thing.
> · promote community safety and reduce crime and fear of crime
> Well that is achieved by putting police on the streets to remove the chav
> scum that cause the crime, not by creating traffic jams.
> · reduce airborne pollution (taking account of the UK National Air Quality
> Strategy) and noise levels throughout the town in general, and in areas of
> high incidence in particular
> Its a town!!! Not Piddleton-on-the-Wold.
> · preserve and enhance the character and appearance of the town's
> Conservation Areas, its stock of listed buildings and particularly the
> historic centre
> Again, how will traffic jams solve this ?
> · improve accessibility between Abingdon and the surrounding countryside
> for recreational purposes
> Accessibility was fine before all this started!
> · sustain and enhance the vitality and viability of the town centre as an
> attractive place for shopping, business, leisure and tourism
> Well some shops worth visiting should help.
> · protect and enhance the town's sound economic and employment base
> How will traffic jams achieve this!!!
> · take account of public opinion and gain widespread public support for
> any proposals through effective publicity, information, consultation and
> education
> What public opinion, have they spoken to drivers?
>

You could always go into Didcot, which at least has car parking close to the centre and now has shops...

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