2:10pm Saturday 13th March 2010
CAMPAIGN group Priory Park Preservation Society has voiced its opposition to a key part of the £5million Cuckoo Corner road scheme.
The society says a survey showed just four vehicles turned left from Priory Crescent into Victoria Avenue in a rush-hour. Campaigners say the results prove a dedicated left-hand lane from Priory Crescent into Victoria Avenue, is not needed.
However, Tory councillor Anna Waite, said: “If we don’t spend the funding for this project by March 2011 then they just take it back, so the town loses a £5million investment for infrastructure because a group of treehuggers seem to think it knows better than all of the experts on these types of junctions. Businesses are not going to come to Southend unless they know they can get through the junctions.”
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