A24
Alliance welcomes scrapping of A24 Horsham-Capel road scheme
The
A24 Alliance welcomes West Sussex County Council's decision to cancel
and withdraw its plans to change the road into part of the A24 'super
highway'. For many years, the A24 Alliance has argued that small-scale
low cost roadwork's are all that is needed to make this road safe.
Finally, the County Council has agreed with the A24 Alliance's stance.
In its recent decision the Council says: "Since
the improvement scheme was approved, accident remedial measures have
helped to reduce the incidence of personal injury accidents and ...
alternative, low-cost safety improvements now represent an acceptable
and deliverable alternative to the scheme." The A24 Alliance now
expects the Council will announce a similar decision for the A24 between
Ashington and Southwater since the small-scale works already undertaken
have improved the safety of the road.
Speaking
on behalf of the A24 Alliance, Peter Finch said:
"This
is very welcome news. We have campaigned for many years that this scheme
should be scrapped. It was a hugely expensive white elephant of a scheme
and such a pity that it has taken the Council so long to come
to what we have said was the only sensible decision. The Council must
now announce that it will scrap the A24 Ashington-Southwater scheme as
well and stop spending any more local council taxpayers money on this
unnecessary scheme".
ENDS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Editors
notes.
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.
www.a24alliance.co.uk
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