Local council @RedditchMatters plans to demolish a ped bridge & re-route #NCN5, forcing 🚴♂️🚴♀️ & walkers to cross the rat run it spans.
*AT THE SAME TIME*, the council is to straighten the road, removing bends, so rat-running drivers aren't forced to slow down.
@RedStand
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So as well as losing a vital part of #NCN5, 🚴♂️🚴♀️ & walkers will have to negotiate a road on which motorists are encouraged to (& will) drive much faster.
So much for @RedditchMatters being 'ahead of the curve' on green issues...
@Redd_Advertiser
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It's the council's 2nd incursion into #NCN5 in the area. It recently built a road across the path for access into a nearby housing development. As with all such developments here, car-dependence is built in, with #ActiveTransport very much an afterthought.
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Cllr Brandon Clayton said: "Imagine if the bridge collapsed when someone was on it or a brick fell out & hit & killed a driver passing under it."
Let's consider that. Local roads are high speed death traps. Not one has been abandoned for safety reasons or lack of funds, or...
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..deliberately made more dangerous.
Instead, money is found & pumped into their repair & widening & yet more found to build new ones, while the user experience of #NCN5 - the only one in the area - is degraded, #VRUs are inconvenienced & endangered...
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...by having to divert & cross a wider, faster road, while motorists benefit from a faster rat run.
It's clear the safety of the most vulnerable is well down the council's list of concerns, while car domination rampages on.
It's appalling given our health & climate crises.
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