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I recently attended the Arundel
Town Council Traffic committee which is held at the Town Hall and is chaired by
the Excellent Cllr Martyn Pettifer. I attend as District Councillor and a co
opted observer. The committee which includes The Mayor Michael Tu, Town
Councillors, Our County Councillor Nigel Peters, County Council officer Scott
Judge, Kay Wagland of agenda 21 and Roger Everitt of the Arundel Community
Partnership
Roger made a presentation on
behalf of the ACP regarding his vision of One Arundel, when a new By-pass is
built it provides the opportunities to re style key junctions, to re-unite the town as one, to make Ford
Road a dead end with no access to the By-Pass.
Arundel would be accessed by
the old A27 either East or West, using the new By-pass to access Ford Road
south of the By-pass (There would be no access North).
Roger vision is for the Ford
Road roundabout to become a single surface low speed area which would be pedestrian
friendly, there are many examples of this type of re modelling in the UK as
well as place like the Netherlands,
All these changes are not
certain, but it gives the opportunity for the whole community to swing behind a
positive shopping list agenda of positive changes for a post Bypass future.
I made this point to Kay that
we should all join forces to lobby government to get these changes adopted as
part of the overall plan, I would also include some sort of earth bund around
the western end to reduce noise to those houses that would be closest to the
bypass, add all the previously mentioned opportunities to develop a network of cycleway and foot paths.
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