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Date: 17/12/07
Name:Avril Lowe
E-mail: a.lowe3@ntlworld.com
Comment: We are extremely concerned about the plans for the Broughton By pass, and do not feel that local people have been fully consulted about the latest plan to just complete the first let of the by pass. This will do little to alleviate the existing problem, (let alone the increased problem caused by additional housing at Whittingham) but will potentially destroy village life and businesses as well destroying the local environment around the church and the area between D'urton Lane and Whittingham Lane. When is the next consultation to take place?
Date: 28/11/2007
Name:Alan Jowett
E-mail: alan.jowett@madencentre.orgh.uk
Comment:Transport in Rossendale has deteriorated over the past five years and fares have risen regularly without any upgrade in service. While much of this can be attributed to problems with roadworks, there needs to be a sign that customer relations are improving. Staff need to help woo customers out of their cars, but instead many drivers are unhelpful, unfriendly and uncommunicative.
Secondly, it would be helpful if councils encouraged their staff, especially at senior level to use public transport instead of giving car allowances. Rossendale borough council's community cohesion community devised a policy which included public transport and encouraging walking, but it has yet to be taken up by significant managers. If council leaders, councillors ansd our MP used public transport it would help them to keep in touch with the views of the general public on not only transport issues but to hear their robust views on many other topics. But then again, perhaps that is why they prefer to use cars.
Thirdly, the £500k spent on trendy bus shelters was a waste of money. The seats are useless, the shelters do not actually provide shelter and in a cold, wet windy valley like Rossendale the bus users are cheesed off with them.
If you want to invite people to your next meetings, then you might get real feedback instead of self-congratulatory comments from the bus companies.
Date: 14/11/2007
Name: Mark Green
E-mail: trog@geotrog.co.uk
Comment: I have been reading elements of the plan. I read that the three key cities of Manchester, Liverpool and Preston are vital to the NW. However, the rail transport links between each are poor (Preston to Manchester is, to be fair, linked by the airport train and ok). Preston to Liverpool is particularly bad. Can't Merseyrail extend their three-rail system to Preston for example to remove the "border crossing" at Ormskirk? The alternative route via Wigan and St Helens is hardly an express route!. Manchester to Liverpool has its moments but is very unreliable. Are there plans for more frequent express services between the cities?
Date: 05/11/2007
Name: Vanessa Bedford
E-mail: vanessa.bedford@lcl.lancscc.gov.uk
Comment: A direct form of Public transport from Haslingden Rossendale to Preston would enable me to use pubic transport for my journey into work everyday. Is there a possibility for such a service? Currently if I use my car it takes around 40 mins total to get from my front door to work in Preston town centre. By a combination of walking, bus, more walking and a train journey it takes approximately an hour and a half each way.
Date: 11/08/2007
Name: Mrs P A Curtis
E-mail: patricia@pcurtis1.orangehome.co.uk
Comment: Are there any future plans to run a bus service straight from Croston to arrive in Preston around 8.45am. At the moment there is only the 112 which goes a very long way round leaves Croston at 8.10am and doesnt arrive in Preston until 9.22am. There are no other buses at all and the train service only arrives in Preston at 8.55am if on time and then we are late for work if we start at 9am. Croston is lacking in public transport and young people who wish to work in Preston and are not able to drive in are stuck and unable to seek suitable employment. There is a bus which goes to Chorley but that also goes a long way round and there are not as many jobs in Chorley for youngsters anyway. I reside in Euxton and am having to go to Croston every morning to take my grand-daughter to Euxton Station to catch the train and then collect her from Euxton each night to take her to Croston. Why cant Croston have a decent bus or train service, they all pay council tax the same as other towns and villages. I await your comments with interest.
Date: 24/04/2006
Name: Eric McLoughlin
E-mail: eric.mcloughlin15@ntlworld
Comment: I believe that there are proposals in the county council for major cuts to services in the Nelson area .If this is true, thenyou are going to isolate quite a large part of old people in Nelson.Services have already been slashed ie,the X43 from Colne .the 99 hospital bus from Colne to Burnley General hospital,part of the Marsden park circular and now you are talking about more cuts ,taking into account the school buses which are going to put children at risk walking to school,especially from outlying areas.I don't know who thinks these plans up but my suggestion is that they sit down and have a good rethink about the situation and the inconveniences that they are going to create.
Date: 12/04/2006
Name: Roy St Pierre
E-mail: roy@roystpierre.com
Comment: I have just learnt that the Lancashire County Council Cycling budget has gone down for the third year running. Inflation makes this even more retrograde.Yet its local transport plan gives lip service to the value of cycling. The switch from car to cycle gives health benefits, reduces pollution, congestion, serious accidents and global warming and of course it is affordable for those without access to cars. At the same time the County Council is proposing a multi-million pound by-pass that will do the exact opposite and from the many comments below is highly unpopular. It just doesn't make sense.
Date: 23/03/2006
Name: J ROBINSON
E-mail: eric.mcloughlin15@ntlworld
Comment: I FIND IT QUITE AMAZING HOW MANY BUSES GO STRAIGHT TO THE BUS STATION WITHOUT PASSING THE RAILIWAY STATION!
Date: 07/02/2006
Name: g.raine
E-mail: georgina@fsmail.net
Comment: In many areas bus fares are subsidised and yet Preston seems to be paying more all the time.The services at night are atrociious for a city and should be extended on Sundays also.
Date: 24/01/2006
Name: ralph leavey
E-mail: crleavey@mac.com
Comment: The proposed M6-Heysham link is not the solution to Lancaster-Morecambe`s local traffic congestion. Much more could be achieved by using resources for better local traffic management schemes and local road improvement. I object to the current proposals strongly.
Date: 22/01/2006
Name: james seddon
E-mail: milkpail@hotmail.com
Comment: The Heysham M6 Link is being built to further the dream of a North European Trade Corridor. It does not meet the needs of Lancaster and Morecambe, which are to tackle congestion and regenerate the area. Heysham never was or ever will be a significant port. The roll on roll off trade can easily be absorbed in Lancashire without spending the money on an environmentally damaging road. The real problem is a politically driven flabby bureaucracy which has never had to survive in the real entreprenurial world.
Date: 19/01/2006
Name: Delia Gaskell
E-mail: delia@gaskell9.wanadoo.co.uk
Comment: I write to you in condemnation of the Heysham m6 link rd the road is not designedor intended to combat our local traffic problemLancshire County Council admit that it is not a congestion relif road.The road adversely impacts on the health and well being of my community as i tax and community tax payer i strongly object to my money being used in this destiuctive way
Date: 12/01/2006
Name: W.Moran
E-mail: bill.xum@ntlworld.com
Comment: We do need to get the cars off the roads, supermarkets out of town were never the answer. the pensioners will be helping soon with the introduction of the free bus pass but transport to these places must be available.
However I live in Greater Manchester and that is not considered as in Lancashire? BUT with a OPs swipecard I should be able to travel free in Grt.Man and pay a nominal fare (50p?) in Lancs and other counties.
But then, I have always thought that transport should be nationalised...
Respectfully, Bill Moran
Date: 09/01/2006
Name: S Hellier
E-mail: sara@bridgesandco.co.uk
Comment: I am not in favour of the Northern by pass as I feel it will not help local traffic from Morecambe to Lancaster and vice-versa. The scheme takes away college playing fields which i feel is not beneficial to all those that use it. In these times where obesity is a problem, taking away a playing field means children will no longer be able to go for a kick about etc & who wants their children being educated in an environment of car fumes.
Date: 02/01/2006
Name: Alan Sutcliffe
E-mail: alansutcliffe@btinternet.com
Comment: Let us get the "Northern Bypass" built, we can then have an almighty fight to get the "Western Bypass". Lancaster will then like most cities, have a complete ring road.