Traffic changes bad for environment (From Dorset Echo)
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Traffic changes bad for environment
10:15am Tuesday 21st August 2012 in Your Letters
Recent letters have criticised the drastic decisions to change traffic control in Weymouth that involved the destruction of the landscaped roundabouts, which provided significant visual enhancement: a blinkered obsession disregarding environmental loss, replaced by a forest of traffic lights. May we therefore expect to see them replaced to cancel out their philistine removal?
Ray Miller, St Julien Crescent, Weymouth
Comments(5)
lostnfound
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11:23am Tue 21 Aug 12
True but it would be pleasant to see the `Morrisons' roundabout returned to its former glory. The roundabout at Chalbury corner is still being maintained.
satisfecho
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11:31am Tue 21 Aug 12
unexpected error wrote:And to stretch it even further, no doubt the house he lives in is an environmental disaster!
I sure the writer of the letter is unhappy with the traffic lights but using the environmental angle to support his view is stretching it. Losing a few bedding plant displays is not exactly environmental disaster.
Monmouthsman
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12:57pm Tue 21 Aug 12
I think most people would agree that well kept gardened roundabouts in the centres of well designed junctions give us more of a lift than half an acre of tarmac under a sea of red or even green lights.
Best of luck with getting a positive response to your letter Mr miller.
ex sapper
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3:33pm Wed 22 Aug 12
The cost of replacing the lights after what is only a short period of the lights being in use means it would never be considered for at least 5 years by which time every one will have got used to them
unexpected error says...
10:51am Tue 21 Aug 12