'It is time to tackle Southend traffic on Priory Crescent'

Also, not only is this area one of the worst, if not the worst, for poor air quality in the borough, we have just had our long-awaited hospice opened in this road and whose very sick patients certainly do not need any additional life threatening problems such as poor air quality.

Many people asked the council to delay the approval of allowing a busy supermarket to open in this very busy part of Priory Crescent before solutions to improve traffic flow from and to the east of Southend had been undertaken but sadly this request was ignored – although this area is home to over a third of Southend’s population.

However, it is essential that some road improvements to the main access roads this side of Southend are done as a matter of urgency if the population of “the east” is not to suffer with major delays whenever we try to drive across the borough to or from our homes.

JOHN BUDGE

Glynde Way, Southend

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