Dea Campbell
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Car Free Development - 2006/04/27 06:32
Dear Mr. Style
I have posted the following in the general discussion forum but feel it rightly belongs in this section.
I am worried that this discussion is not addressing the most pressing issue;the one that more than any other will affect life in Lewes if your proposed development goes ahead.Do we really need a traffic survey to tell us what 800 more cars will do to our town?Cars will clog the streets,and some of our loveliest streets will become rat runs:dangerous to walk along and unpleasant to live in.Attempts at routing the extra traffic are irrelevant-more traffic means more jams which means people doubling back and finding their way however they can through the town.I wonder why there has been no discussion about car free development,which has worked so well in Europe and in Scotland.The Phoenix site would be an ideal place for such a development,being close to all amenities,within a few minutes of a mainline railway station,and in the heart of a town with a reputation for being green,alternative and radical.At a time when governments are starting to cast around desperately for solutions to the problem of carbon emmissions,do you not agree that car- free is the future of housing development?
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