Frustration grows over Farnham’s gridlocked streets.

Frustration is growing over the town’s gridlocked and polluted streets. 

 

Now the townsfolk suggest they all Adopt A Donkey and call it after Farnham’s Traffic Fiasco. 

Name the donkey suggestions to waverleyweb@gmail.com

 Hundreds of Farnham residents are going berserk on social media sites, complaining about Farnham’s roadworks.

Residents are using words such as:

Chaos, shambles, ridiculous, stupid, ludicrous, ill-conceived, poor planning and downright dangerous.

On every road leading into the town and in the town centre, vehicles are gridlocked, chugging out exhaust fumes and polluting the lungs of the young, the old, and the middle-aged.

Did the Farnham infrastructure planners envisage this scenario?

Said one angry motorist.

One day, I joined the queue to drive down West Street into The Borough. I was in the middle lane because vehicles were queuing to go up Castle Street, blocking my view of cars coming down the street. I drove on and came bumper to bumper with a car trying to turn right.

An accident blackspot may require an ambulance or police presence, but where are the ambulances and police vehicles? They are stuck in a long line of vehicles on Downing Street, Union Road, or South Street.

Pedestrian safety seems non-existent in The Borough.

Q Why has a new crossing been placed too close to the top of Downing Street? I believe even the pedestrian safety island has been removed from the bottom of Castle Street. Pollution in Downing Street must be far worse than it ever was in The Borough. Shopkeepers are saying they have to keep their doors shut because of the choking fumes being emitted.

Their takings are also down. Shoppers find it too time-consuming trying to get into the town. People are saying they now shop in Alton.

The Farnham Infrastructure Plan includes widening the pavements in Downing Street. Why? It will make it impossible for ambulances and fire engines to even nudge their way along the road.

Are the planners thinking that such vehicles will never be needed to attend emergencies in the town centre?

For many people their bete noir is those damned planters and little posts. Nobody wants them.

Once again, the powers that be are lumbering Farnham with another white elephant. Eventually, we will have a whole herd of them.

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