More BJ Congestion

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"For those interested in the geographic location of B J village"

-It is Latitude 52 degrees 58 N ---- Longitude 1 degree 1. 60 W

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B J Village centre congestion continue

I have learned that the Authority has already considered ands responded to others who have raised a couple of the points I have covered below. The reply appears to be in the normal “Gobbledy Gook” language expected of those in the employment of an official Administration. The language as usual contains text which is pure “legislation speak” . What is wrong with Plain English and reasoned decisions based upon a flexibility and understanding which can be appreciated and understood by us plain mortals

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We have numerous “peak-time” traffic problems in BJ village, with the intensity of private and commercial vehicles aggravating the existing difficulties and safety of pedestrians going about their everyday shopping and leisure activity

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Within a few metres in any direction of the small Shopping Parade in Main Street are numerous pedestrian road crossing hazards

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1)Pedestrians crossing the bottom junction of Padleys Lane in both directions,
2)Pedstrians crossing Main St, to and from the “Cross Keys” / the Co-op,
3)Pedestians crossing the road to and from the “Cross key” to The Charity Shop , Post Office , Chemist etc
4)Pedestrians crossing Main St diagonally to and from the Co-op Car park to the Post Office, Chemist etc
5)Pedestrians crossing the road at the bottom of Willow Wong in both directions
6)Pedestrians crossing to and from Main Street to Meadow Lane.
7)Pedestrians crossing Meadow Lane in both directions
8)Pedestrians crossing Main Street to and from the Post office to the Old School side
9)Pedestrians crossing Chestnut Grove from the Old School side to and from the Coop Food Store
10)Pedestrians crossing midway along Chestnut Grove to and from the Coop Food Store
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11)Supplement the above dangerous crossings required by the pedestrians with the further need for some of the public to access the one of the two scheduled Bus service Stops on either side of Main street together with the continual mounting and dismounting of the “ to and from Nottingham service”. partticularly at school start and finish times

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Add to all the above facts that a major proportion of the village population is either young and elderly and that there is alway a disproportionate number of cars use the above area with routine high peaks at regular daily periods and .. ..

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.. ..there exists a formula for events none of us want to consider .. .. .. this situation needs resolving

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BJ Centre congestion

The 24th is National "Get On-Line Day" . Stats tell us that 33% of the poplation do use the Internet and that 27% of us have never used the Internet
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What a dissappointment in real terms this means that 20million > 16 million of us or so, area ctually missing out on everday occurances and more to the point they could be missing out of approx £300 in average annual savings as a result of Online price comparisons which are available to and for those embracing this easy to use technology
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Just two of the useful and popular village centre facilities - which unfortunately do contribute to congestion

Congestion in B J village centre

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Main St, Chestnut Grove, Meadow Lane, Padleys Lane, and Willow Wong
are all provide access which are vital to the “lifeblood” of our village centre, yet parking on these roads is becoming quite irresponsible, and is in danger of finally grid-locking the passage of pedestrians and vehicles into and thro the village

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Sooner rather than later some measure of control will be inevitably and required to bring those thoughtless culprits to “heel” (heel- “walking” - that’s so “punny”) , for I ask why? Why is it that so many find it imperative to use the car for such a short journey from their homes within the village simply to get to the school and the few shops.

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Why not walk ? This has many advantages - for as a vital component to our own and our children’s well being ( exercise), it will save us the expense of the disproportionately high petrol usage for such short journeys when using the car. Walking and not driving into the village centre also contributes to assisting us to reduce all our carbon footprints, ... plus more importantly, it will certainly provide some ease to those, both young and aged, who suffer with asthma, and,,,,, just as significant it will have a remarkable affect on the congestion, the safety of the elderly, ourselves and all our children in the village
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The Main Street area certainly needs some traffic control/parking measures, particularly at the peak times - 4x daily “School Runs“. These “runs” bring an additional and coinciding time activity for Food shopping, the Post Office, the Chemist, Library, Doctors Surgery, Bus Stops to town and Southwell etc., plus the contiual mobile activity of exiting and returning back into the village.

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Are the “powers that” be considering the situation ?,,















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