Testun llawn:
In the last 15 years 2 large developments have been built; one by the racecourse and the other on the edge of Whitnash. The result has seen a substantial increase in traffic on all roads leading into Warwick Town Centre yet the road infrastructure hasn't expanded to cope and of course the geography of the area means there is a limit on what can be done.
I travel through Warwick Town Centre everyday to get to work and on many occasions it has taken me almost 20 minutes to journey the short distance from my house opposite Myton School to the roundabout at Bridge End a distance of half a mile. In the evening, I have crawled down Jury Street again for 20 minutes or so during rush hour and this distance isn't even a quarter of a mile. I have also watched traffic heading into Warwick during the evenings from the Business Park behind Warwick School crawl for an hour into Warwick. This summer during the period of road works leading to the New Supermarket at the end of our road I have observed cars and buses take 1/2 hour to drive 200 metres past our house on Saturdays. Once I got caught in this traffic and it took me one hour to reach the roundabout by the new supermarket.
Clearly, we all have to live somewhere and I don't object in principle to the building of New Houses but I have to ask if those who have drawn up these proposals actually experience the problems of getting about Warwick in any form of road transport during the busy periods or when any sort of work is being done on the local infrastructure.
Maybe I could suggest building a road through the grounds of Warwick Castle to bypass the Town Centre? Of course this is preposterous but it appears that building in effect a small town next to a small town isn't!