[Hardy-l] Two Mile Coppice

[Dr Tony Fincham]

Ronald,

Sadly there is no evidence to support the contention that building new roads gets people to their destinations faster -
all is does is increase expectations & demand - within a short period of time the increased demand nullifys any potential
benefit from the new road. You are merely move the jam further down the road - Weymouth will become even more snarled
up than it is now. 

Also, it is hard to justify the permanent destruction of ancient landscape for the convenience at what at best must be a very
temporary form of transport.

I regularly use the train service between Dorchester & Weymouth - it is excellent; I know many people who use the buses
all the time without trouble.

Tony Fincham.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: RONALD KNIGHT 
  To: hardy-l at coyote.csusm.edu 
  Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:08 AM
  Subject: [Hardy-l] Two Mile Coppice


        Re. Tony Fincham's of 24th October.
        The Olympics are in 2012. The expected completion of the new road is 2010.
        "Excellent" public transport links between Dorchester and Weymouth is not quite true. For instance, people having to travel from within Weymouth to Dorchester for hospital appointments can often find appropriate buses full, and/or delayed because of traffic jams.
        There is still the large increasing number of commercial and industrial vehicles that need speedy facilities to get to their destinations without having to go through built-up residential areas and again get held up in the traffic jams that exist throughout the year and not just at tourist holiday periods.
        Delays can be caused by the overhead railway bridge that some vehicles find too late they cannot get under. There is also the hair-pin bend on Ridgeway hill that some long vehicles find they cannot negotiate.
        Not only will the new road "link neatly" with the Dorchester by-pass, but also with the existing partial by-pass of more central Weymouth.
        Regarding the Coppice itself, with all the wet weather we are having it can seem more like the Florida Everglades than an ancient forest.
        Doubtless this new road will in time create its own wildlife habitat(s), as have others in the Hardy vicinity.
        Ronald Knight

        http://ronaldknight.blogspot.com 



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