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For
Immediate Release
12th January 2003
"M24" Fears Prompt Public Meeting.
Local residents fearful of future plans to increase the speed and volume of traffic on the A24 have organised a public meeting to discuss what action they should take.
The meeting will be held at the Southwater Leisure Center, Pevensey Road (off Cedar Drive) Southwater near Horsham at 7.30pm on Thursday 30th January.
Announcing the meeting local resident Gillian Hurst said: "We have taken this step due to the attitude of West Sussex County Council and their consultants. We are as concerned as they are by the number of fatal crashes on this road, where we differ is in the way the road should be made safe. We don't agree that building flyovers and speeding up journey times will cut crashes, as suggested by the consultants. All that those proposals will do is attract more traffic - going faster - onto the road. If safety were the objective, measures to ensure a reduction in the inappropriate speed seen on this road would be more effective, and save the Tax payer millions".
Continuing Gillian Hurst added: "We are concerned that the A24 is being prepared to become a main artery in the roads infrastructure, providing motorway speeds and volumes of traffic from the A27 to the M25. What local people want is the countryside preserved and traffic reduced, not our communities severed and blighted by this road"?
Finally Gillian Hurst Said: "We welcome suggestions and offers of help from local people and can be contacted by
e-mail or by letter to: A24 c/o Box 4144 Worthing".
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Note for Editors.
(1) The A24 Alliance was formed in January 2003 by a number of residents who live in the various villages and individual locations along the A24 from Dorking to Worthing.