Consiglio torna al tavolo da disegno su Link Road fallito
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15wvw59pxpo
di insomnimax_99
Consiglio torna al tavolo da disegno su Link Road fallito
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15wvw59pxpo
di insomnimax_99
7 commenti
>A council which spent £56m on a failed road project will be going back to the drawing board to try and find an alternative solution.
>Norfolk County Council had to withdraw its plans for the controversial Norwich Western Link road earlier this year because of concerns about its impact on rare bats.
£56m pissed down the drain with nothing to show for it. The council identified a need for this road in 2018, since then all they’ve accomplished is burning taxpayer cash.
They could also just pull an HS2 and build a scaled down version that runs from the A47 to that creepy looking big bushy tree for 1.4billion.
Doesn’t do what it was meant to, but by god, we did it!
> The aim was to ease congestion
Building more roads does not do this. Even if they’d built it, three years down the line, there’d be congestion on the road because *it is a road built for cars to use*. There’s a climate crisis and we’re still trying to encourage driving. Thank god for the bats.
So Nature England changed the rules after they had already had the plans finalised and then complained after the fact forcing the entire project to be scrapped
Why is Nature England always involved in these fuck ups?
Could they build an HS2 style bat shed to overcome the Natural England beaurocrats?
It’s funny to think that once we were the nation that led the world in transport innovation. Now we can’t even build a bloody junction. It really is embarassing.
I’m no fan of road building in general – Britain is way too car dependent and we throw way too much money at car infrastructure rather than alternatives.
However, medium distance through routes are a genuine use case for car travel, and Norwich having 90% of a ring road is just silly and results in there being no good way between west and north. This road clearly should be built. I don’t know the exact planned route but it looks like it’s basically fields and a river crossing, there’s nothing that looks particularly special there.
It’s particularly ridiculous that Natural England changed the rules after the planning was already in place and then blocked it.
Also how the fuck does this make any sense?
> The council admitted a dual carriageway over the River Wensum was unlikely because of the eco-restrictions, but said a single carriageway could be an option.