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Green Transport Policy?

The one-way traffic experiment may be reducing the evening queues, however it has not improved the campus for non-car users. Pedestrians are now fenced off from the busy North South Road. A more dangerous environment has also been created for cyclists travelling towards Lewes who now have to cross a lane of fast moving traffic at the campus exit. It is time that the university addressed the cause of the problem: too many cars, rather than ineffectively treating the symptoms.
T. Green
ENGG



I'm considering moving to Lewes; lovely old town, but a mite expensive. Perhaps a caravan near the Kingston roundabout might be the solution? I was thinking about it as I sat for 30 minutes in the 'Brighton bound' traffic lane, waiting to get out of the university. We're told to love our fellow-human beings, but it's stretching a point not to feel a glint of envy as our fellow drivers speed by us in the next lane, home to an early dinner. Go to Kingston and reverse back, say the system's founders. Good for the car, they say. How about the petrol? Most of the lower-paid watch their petrol gauge daily, and old cars like mine would squawk at the higher mileage.

The answer lays outside - with the Council. They may consider easing the traffic flow, when the seagulls move to their new home nearby (one ex-council leaders is nuts about football). In the meantime, I'll go nuts, dreaming of some nice little place near Kingston.......
Mary Clarke


Dear Bulletin

As a member of the University Chaplaincy Team as well as a resident of Falmer Village and Priest-in-charge of the parish of Stanmer with Falmer, I would like to register my concern about the item in VC's Voice (Bulletin, 13 November) on the interest Brighton and Hove Albion Football club have declared in building a new stadium development in Village Way North.

To put as the first comment that this would help to solve the University's traffic problems would seem to be expressing a worrying sense of priorities. The valley between Falmer Village and the University of Brighton is designated farming land, and Falmer is one of the most lovely remaining small villages within the Lewes District and lies within an area of outstanding natural beauty. To carve up the this valley and erect a large stadium with floodlighting, with all the accompanying road and traffic developments, let alone all the problems associated with football crowds and hooliganism, could hardly be an advantage either to the University or the community that live in the village.

I am glad to note therefore that the Vice Chancellor recognises that "a stadium in Falmer and the subsequent development that might follow, could change the whole character of the area in fundamental ways" and hope that he will indeed consult those who live in the area as well as those who come to work and study here, before he makes any official commitments on this matter that affects our local environment so seriously.
Andrew Robinson

 

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