A safe solution was proposed in evidence put to the STAG Brewery Public Planning Inquiry by a transport witness, Howard Potter. SEE
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Whether or not a change is made to the presence of Thomson House Primary School in the locality, the extra movement demands caused by the major part of the STAG permitted proposals warrant a significant safety improvement at the Sheen Lane level crossing.
A sensitively designed stepped-ramp footbridge to replace the original bridge would attract pedestrians and cyclists to use a far safer and easier means of crossing the railway rather than leaving them to wait for long periods spilling over the Sheen Lane carriageway.
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But sadly that requires approval from National Rail and Transport for London who both, inexplicably, gave evidence at the Public Planning Inquiry that the full Stag Brewery proposals were ‘safe’. At the time and hearing and reading the evidence it was impossible to avoid the feeling that the four organisations, those two plus the Council and the developers, had joined forces so as not to weaken the case against the development, and the School in particular.
In the shadow of the local elections what will the Council now say?
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What will the voters say at the up and coming election.
I grew in Gorton and then Wythenshawe in Manchester and the saying was ‘Pin a Red Rosette on a pig and it would still win those safe Labour Seats.’
OK the Greens won the recent by- election in Gorton, so things can change but I fear that the Yellow-rosetted-pig syndrome may result in more of the same as we have now in this borough
Time for PR in local elections methinks.
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The current footbridge is entirely inadequate for a crossing where cross traffic can be detained for up to 15 mins at times. It has no bike run so many cyclists can not use it. It is a brilliant idea to design a more contemporary and hopefully more useful bridge at what is the busiest crossing place between Richmond and Putney.
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