Evesham traffic issue: Readers' views on what should be done

Let’s do something about it.

No need to remove the lights — just turn them off and have a two-month dummy run to see how it works.

The two existing island crossings are well apart so maybe commission the Army to drop in a temporary, middle-crossing island by the inactivated crossing lights.

Give our service boys and girls a bit of team practice in a potentially-volatile scenario, supported by a Dunkirk spirit.

Experience shows that 30mph recreational cyclists and motorised traffic don’t mix safely with walkers and domestic cyclists so it would need a temporary two-month 20mph restriction to be sure of avoiding mayhem — it’s been shown to work elsewhere.

Just think.

An increase, as it works, from the current regular 5mph crawl to 20mph should be travel heaven, even for the most speed crazy among us.

Not forgetting relative health relief for buggy-bound young children and asthmatics particularly but all in general.

A reduction in the devastating scourge of nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, benzene and formaldehyde from stationery vehicle exhaust emissions.

Easy-peasy if you’re not red-tape weasy. Let’s do it!

Michael Parker

Sedgeberrow

REGARDING the snide and rather pompous retort to my letter about traffic in Evesham last week by ‘Scienceboff’, I would like to add a couple of comments of my own.

It seems I have caused quite a stir judging by the number of people who felt the urge to write in, most agreeing with me.

I’m of an age when it was safe to walk to school and home on my own.

I also walked to work in Evesham for 10 years or more.

It’s about half-a-mile away from my home.

Now I’m retired and due to a health condition I can no longer walk very far.

I have a blue badge and am totally dependent on my car.

Most people depend on a car to get them to work as unless you work in a shop or hospitality in the town there is no other industry situated conveniently to be able to walk or cycle to.

So the majority of the traffic in the town is trying to get through it to somewhere else.

All but Iceland and Waitrose have moved out of town too so to do a grocery shop it means a car trip to a supermarket.

So those who are trying to force people out of their cars into cycle lanes and wider footpaths are missing the point.

It’s true I do not have all the answers but surely that’s what we pay our councillors and town planners to do for us, not make lives a misery for those numerous people to have to drive through the town.

Julie Jones

Evesham

What do you think? Write to letters@eveshamjournal.co.uk.