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I have already informed your representative of the problem at what you described as a 'consultation'.
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D Sayers
Re:The so-called Phoenix gateway - 2007/04/25 10:20This doesn't answer the question about how all this additional traffic will get out of North St and onto the Offham Road without rat running through the small residential roads of Lancaster St, Sun St and Abinger Place. No right turn at Lancaster St simply means they'll have to detour round the town before making a left turn at the same place. Either that or all traffic has to go up the High St before turning right at the prison. Chaos whichever way you route it. If the Phoenix is built the only long term solution is another road bridge over the Pells and up through Landport. Can this ever be an acceptable solution?
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Sashka
Re:The so-called Phoenix gateway - 2007/04/25 13:06What would help is the TRICs figure that don't seem to have materialised. This would give us all an idea of the traffic generation Angel are expecting to generate as they are figures for comparitive developments elsewhere. Anyone know where they are? We could get an idea of eactly how many extra cars are predicted to be swarming around our already clogged up streets, with no parking, and unacceptable pollution levels.
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prufrock
Re:The so-called Phoenix gateway - 2007/04/30 10:37I am sorry to disappoint you but the Phoenix Plans represent an absolute godsend to those of us living in the East St, Eastgate St and Little East St area. At present almost all traffic using Phoenix Causeway is funneled down one or other of these streets in a 40 year old one way system that is akin to a racetrack. ESCC have long recognised the problem but, as is well known, they are incapable of acting on traffic in Lewes. Until I see a better idea (Any sensible proposals welcome, or is constructive criticism not your thing?) I, and many others, will be supporting this scheme on this ground as well as others.
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Harry
Re:The so-called Phoenix gateway - 2007/04/30 14:50Living on the edge of Little East Street, I agree with Prufrock about the traffic racetrack, but I can't help thinking that a disproportionate development of the kind proposed by Angel (with all the extra traffic the 700+ flats, plus the lorries that will feed the shops, plus the proposed development the other side of Phoenix Causeway, will generate) isn't the best way of addressing the problem, either for us or for Lewes as a whole.
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sashka
Re:The so-called Phoenix gateway - 2007/04/30 22:28I can understand wy residents of Little East St want to see this appalling aborted attempt at a dual carriageway through Lewes improved.. The troubls is that i don't understand how adding 700 new nighbours their cars, and all their visitors and deliveries is going to achieve this. I don't think passing the problem onto residents at the top of North St, and other Streets is fair, and I don't think leaving Little East St as it is , is fair either. I went to the exhibition of plans to pedestrianins Cliffe High St. A planning officer from ESCC admitted that if they do this, it will divert even more traffic on to North St and little East St, so this should also be considered. Our problem is that Lewes cannot cope with traffic. Full Stop. It needs a radical solution that will cost money. ESCC are relyingpiecemeal on developers doing this and that, here and there in a completely non-joined up process. I have no idea how improvements can be achieved, but increasing the towns population by over 10% in a stroke is hardly the way to start.There must come a point when we acknowledge that we cannot keep cramming more and more into a town with such a limited road network.
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