Rush-hour protest for Corsham traffic light objectors
11:00am Monday 20th July 2009 in News By Rachel Allen
Residents in Corsham will be staging a protest today during the afternoon rush-hour over plans to install traffic lights along the A4.
A small group of about 10 people from the Pickwick area will be standing near to The Two Pigs pub from 5pm to 6pm with placards protesting against the proposed traffic calming measures.
Norman Coates, who lives in Pickwick Road, said: "We will be protesting later today because we do not want these horrible traffic lights to come into place at The Hare and Hounds mini-roundabout or further up the A4.
"Not only will it look terrible but it will bring large queues of traffic to a standstill along Pickwick where we live, bringing with it more noise, fumes and disruption.
"At the moment at least the traffic flows quite well and we accepted the A4 when we bought our houses, but we don't accept large queues of traffic outside our homes."
Comments(7)
The Maxter
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1:55pm Mon 20 Jul 09
corshamside
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3:25pm Mon 20 Jul 09
The problem will most likely be that under planning legislation these traffic lights were agreed between the planning authority (North Wilts) and the applicants. It is very unlikely they can be undone and certain councillors should be mindful of this and not raise false hopes.
AFter all it was possible to object earlier but almost no one did.
pucouajio
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6:44pm Mon 20 Jul 09
Not having seen the plan myself, I'm not sure whether I support it or not. As a cyclist I'm no fan of roundabouts though!
rrosco
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5:06pm Wed 22 Jul 09
pucouajio wrote:Let me guess, you'd prefer traffic lights because cyclits find it much harder to ignore roundabouts compared to red lights?
I really can't believe the plan is set in stone at this stage. Hopefully we'll find out more tomorrow. Not having seen the plan myself, I'm not sure whether I support it or not. As a cyclist I'm no fan of roundabouts though!
poodle1
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9:43pm Thu 23 Jul 09
G D Jones
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12:02pm Fri 24 Jul 09
Traffic flows at present more than adequately so why erect traffic lights, if traffic lights are needed in the area look at the junction of the Bradford Road / A4 where the recent tragic fatal accident occured
pucouajio says...
1:15pm Mon 20 Jul 09