A report from Chrissie Osborne of the 'Stakeholder Meeting' held by Northamptonshire County Council on 1 August 2008 - we first flagged this up here. In short more disappointing prevarication when we know there are simple things that can be done now to make the road safer and increase capacity.
'We met the Road Planning man from the County Council, who gave us a short power point talk. Nothing much has changed inasmuch that it will be the middle period of the next decade before what is ultimately decided in this process is started. Everyone laughed at this and talked of when all this was up for discussion before 20 yrs ago,
'The next step is to do surveys on the road re traffic and we meet again after this for another discussion!
The following problems were itemised
- Strategic connectivity
- Traffic congestion
- Road Safety
- Rat running.
- Severance ( getting from one side of the road to the other)
- Environmental Issues
'We then split up into workshops, about 7 in each group, and discussed our issues. After this a spokesperson from each group reported back to those assembled.
'There was a startling lack of focus on Road Safety. The main gripes were bunching traffic at Round Spinney and the A14 Kettering end at peak times.
'Although I talked to 50mph making the traffic flow more smoothly small areas of dual carriageway were suggested so that traffic knew when overtaking was coming up and were therefore not impatient to overtake in silly places.
'But in reality it will take many years to build these short stretches of dual carriageway, during which time more and more accidents will happen.'
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