Tough travel decisions (From York Press)
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Tough travel decisions
11:28am Monday 28th May 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter
I WAS disappointed to see Liz Edge (Letters, May 22) railing against York’s Transport Strategy, which is intended to help those who need to travel by car, by making their peak-time journeys easier.
The only practical way to achieve this is for all residents to make intelligent decisions about travel choices, and consider car sharing, walking, cycling and the bus for local journeys. That will make the best use of our city’s finite road capacity.
The physical priority measures needed to encourage modal shift may not be acceptable to some, but the alternative will be gridlock. Not at present but a decade or two further on.
Perhaps when the A59 Park&Ride comes on stream we will see more moaning at its associated bus priority measures. Liz should have another walk around York with some professional transport planners. She could swot up beforehand on the local transport plan, which every local authority must have by Whitehall decree.
One might think that York is going it alone, but readers may be assured that local authorities across the UK have long accepted that quarts do not fit into pint pots.
Paul Hepworth, Windmill Rise, Holgate, York.
Comments(10)
NoNewsIsGoodNews
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12:04pm Mon 28 May 12
How about all residents to make intelligent job choices and not work for an open top bus company that loves to take up as much of the "finite" (Paul's favorite word) road capacity as possible while only carrying 2 or 3 passengers.
nowthen
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4:25pm Mon 28 May 12
Ichabod76
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7:04pm Mon 28 May 12
You've been promising us gridlock for years now you say in the next decade or two.
make up your mind and stop giving us cyclists a bad name
ak7274
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7:25pm Mon 28 May 12
Paul you are doing your cause no good at all. In fact I believe you are doing damage as people are getting so turned off by you that they no longer have the will to live.
sheps lad
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7:47pm Mon 28 May 12
ak7274 wrote:He's just trying to make the list of most letters in the current year having missed out last year!
Not again. Please nooooooooooo!
Paul you are doing your cause no good at all. In fact I believe you are doing damage as people are getting so turned off by you that they no longer have the will to live.
pedalling paul
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6:10pm Tue 29 May 12
sheps lad wrote:Drat and double drat.....I've been rumbled at last!
ak7274 wrote:He's just trying to make the list of most letters in the current year having missed out last year!
Not again. Please nooooooooooo!
Paul you are doing your cause no good at all. In fact I believe you are doing damage as people are getting so turned off by you that they no longer have the will to live.
Magicman!
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1:09am Wed 30 May 12
sheps lad
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9:22am Wed 30 May 12
Magicman! wrote:Yes but you missed out -modal shift, finite and gridlock!
We didn't need such a long letter like this. A simple reply would have been "having read Liz Edge's letter, we can now see she is a total **** who can't fathom even basic road layouts" There you go, I saved some paper being printed on and some web space being taken up.
bolero
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9:35am Thu 31 May 12
lis0r says...
11:50am Mon 28 May 12