Local politicians are busy visiting us before next week's elections, including the chap who's designed a new version. They seem to be all quite happy about finally getting a resolution, thought they quickly admit it's only a fix to part of the issue.I'm not sure why they think we should settle for something half-baked?
Here's my comment on Zac Goldsmith's website, since Katharine Harborne doesn't seem to believe in getting direct feedback on hers.
We should not let Network Rail get away with this band-aid solution as it solves only a part of the problem.
1. It doesn't solve the car congestion issue. A level crossing simply has no place in a densely populated area in 2012.
2. It doesn't help with the station access for less able and parents with children. Or commuters living on the South of the railway line.
3. It doesn't improve the miserable station that North Sheen is, with for instance cycle parking.
Bottom line: Network Rail broke it 17 years ago, they should fix it by moving the signalling equipment they installed where the old footpath was.
See my previous posts on the subject:
- At last: the North Sheen footbridge is coming... alas, this is not what you expected!
- Richmond Transits: Join the Facebook group "Stuck at North Sheen ...
- Richmond Transits: Airtrack and North Sheen Crossing
- Richmond Transits: Monday Mayhem at North Sheen level crossing
- Richmond Transits: Update on the North Sheen station footbridge
- Richmond Transits: Here's the new camera at North Sheen level crossing
- Richmond Transits: Update on the update on the North Sheen station ...
- Richmond Transits: Susan Kramer's progress on North Sheen Station ...
- Richmond Transits: Another train tragedy in waiting at North
- Richmond Transits: Still waiting at the level crossing...
- Traffic pandemonium: just a sign of things to come?
- More on Manor road and Heathrow
- Richmond Transits: Level crossing tragedy in Barnes
- Richmond Transits: Update on the North Sheen station footbridge
- Richmond Transits: Preliminary plans for North Sheen footbridge rebuffed
- Richmond Transits: Campaing for suppressing level crossings
- Richmond Transits: Richmond and Twickenham Times: Commuters see red over level crossing
- Richmond Transits: Susan Kramer's progress on North Sheen Station footbridge
- Richmond Transits: Time to remind Susan Kramer about the North Sheen Station footbridge
