Comments for Hastings Alliance

Comment on What is the Hastings Alliance? by david

david — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:50:57 +0000

just heard about this

http://amberrudd.co.uk/news/hastings-to-bexhill-link-road./

can you set up a counter petition

Comment on Hastings Alliance Press Release: BHLR – The Wrong Strategy and Poor Value for Money. by Richard

Richard — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:15:35 +0000

It makes me laugh how many people come over from Brighton and talk about ‘protecting the environment’ over here.

Brighton is so much more prosperous than us because it has the benefit of

- a bypass
- a fast road to London
- an international airport 20 minutes up the road.

Furthermore the rubbish gets sent over here to landraise at Pebsham – this ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ that you are trying to protect; the sewage gets pumped from Brighton to a massive new plant at Peacehaven; and the electricity gets generated at a nuclear power station along the coast at Dungennes.

Together with the landraise, the industrial scale sewage plant at Pebsham and the burnt out incinerator, we are the rubbish dump of Sussex. Yet when somebody does something to try to re-generate the area, somehow the ‘environmental concerns’ are too great.

We are also in the frame for another landfill at Ashdown Brickworks, which will happen Link Road or no Link Road.

Comment on LINK ROAD EXITS TOP 40 by Richard

Richard — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:08:03 +0000

If the DfT does not approve the Link Road, then you run the risk it will be built piecemeal by ESCC and private developers and that the environmental safeguards will be removed.

Comment on BHLR – DECISION DEFERRED UNTIL MARCH by Richard

Richard — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:06:21 +0000

Until we resolve the Glyne Gap bottleneck it will never be possible to create an efficient and integrated public transport system because buses will have to go a long way round and will get stuck in traffic.

The railway only goes runs within a few hundred yards of the seafront with large parts of both Hastings and Bexhill some distance from a station.

Unless you build a new road how could you get easily by public transport from

(1) Sidley to Conquest Hospital?
(2) Hollington to Little Common?
(3) Pebsham to Hastings Crematorium

This either means bus services going through the bottleneck and taking a roundabout route or two buses and a train which would also be very time consuming due to the number of interchanges.

While building a station at Glyne Gap may be part of a longer term plan, it is not a realisitic proposition without the Link Road. It would be a recipe for gridlock.

Comment on ALLIANCE CAMPAIGN UPDATE AND EVENT by Richard

Richard — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:56:11 +0000

Why don’t you also call on Norman Baker to

- Grass over the A27 Lewes and Brighton and Hove bypass
- Reduce the A23 south of Pease Pottage to a single carriageway and divert the traffic back through all the towns and villages.

If this sounds absurd, it is esentially what you are suggesting the people of Hastings and Bexhill continue to put up with.

While I accept that a sizeable minority don’t want the Bexhill – Hastings Link Road, a larger number of people do. The BHLR is part of the solution in that it will allow the creation of new bus routes along the new road AND the installation of bus lanes along parts of the A259.

Without the BHLR, attempts to improve public transport are doomed to failure. The railway doesn’t run where the population is, while an efficient bus network can never be realised so long as the A259 Bexhill Road/Glyne Gap bottleneck remains.

Comment on The arguments by 14th October Deadline for Comments on New Bid for Bexhill/Hastings Link Road

14th October Deadline for Comments on New Bid for Bexhill/Hastings Link Road — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:48:31 +0000

[...] will accept views until 14 October from anyone who wishes to comment on the proposals. The Hastings Alliance website has full detail of the reasons why this road scheme is unnecessary. If you would like to submit [...]

Comment on Over 1800 objections to proposed link road by Linda Atkinson

Linda Atkinson — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:00:37 +0000

please protect our green spaces this road is not necessary

Comment on Link Road Uncertainty by Glynis Boelema

Glynis Boelema — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:58:24 +0000

I want to sign up my objecton to this road to no where and distruction of valley
which I have walked for many years . Where on the site can you do this, as I cannot
find it.

Comment on The arguments by Kevin Higginson

Kevin Higginson — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:56:01 +0000

I partially agree with Steve, while the BHLR is not the solution, a solution must be found. Currently there is only one road and one rail link between the towns.
I remember not many years ago the idea of a ‘string of diamonds’ along the south coast; unfortunately there is no ‘string’.
My idea would be to use the money to double track and electrify the marshlink so javelin trains could run to Hastings. I would also add in the Willingdon chord (mentioned in railtracks key improvements) to create a faster service to Brighton, (fast trains from Ashford to Brighton). This would create some inward investment as commuting would be easier. Next I would look at reinstating the trams as a guided bus way like in Crawley; there is space to put a guided bus way along most of the De La Warr road to Glynde Gap, and then onwards from the BoPeep to the Old Town. This would create a much faster bus service between the two towns. Finally, I would look at a new Bypass (dual cariageway) that went further north, taking a gradual curve from the Lamb Inn to the Guestling Thorn bend, and combine that with the completion of the Polegate bypass to Alfriston.
All this would mean, it would be faster to get in and out of the area, potentially becoming a hinterland of Ashford with all the investment that would bring.

Comment on COMBE HAVEN RALLY IN THE VALLEY – A GREAT SUCCESS! by Lin Parris

Lin Parris — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:18:45 +0000

Well done everyone,I was with you in spirit and have plenty of cards to hand out,we shall keep fighting on!!