The recent Surrey County Council-led Farnham Board meeting considered the town’s various plans, including its infrastructure. However, publishing the outcome onto the council’s public network took considerably longer than usual.
Could this be? Because the participants had some awkward questions about Surrey County Council’s Kaiser Tim.
Such as…
“When this all overruns, who is going to be responsible?”“If Waverley ceased to be what body replaced it regarding costs and liabilities.”“Will Farnham Town Council implode with the added costs of taking on the task of rectifying the undoubted chaos?”“Who on the board will still be there in two years?”
Of course, WW may be wrong. But isn’t it time for a good cascade of reality together with a shovel of practicality?
What Farnham wanted was discarded long ago. It offered an electric bus fleet and cycle routes in all directions, making it a pedestrian paradise and a clean-air zone.
And to this moment, nobody has solved how buses will traverse the reduced road width in any direction by Barclays Bank. The consultants stated it was too difficult to solve, which means whatever is done will come to nought.
Farnham traders won’t be trading if this three-year disaster fest is allowed to go ahead—too much pain with negligible gain. The world is a very different place than when this was planned. See Brightwells for details.
The Farnham board will hit the national headlines soon enough.
It will go ill for all concerned.
Especially the innocent residents of Farnham.
Beware the ides of March.
Please take a look at the latest actions and proposals.
How much did the Farnham Board cost and what did it deliver? If it had gone for an underpass on the bypass it would have saved countless motorists thousands of hours wasting time queuing on the bypass and reduced Farnham’s pollution levels. Accepted that this might not have been a preferred option as this improvement saw the light of day in 2004.