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St Nicholas Village Referendum Results

May 7th 2005

Comments offered include:

We need -

• long-term planning, not short term solutions.
• address the cause, not the symptom/s.

Suggestions include:

• Learning from the Dutch example of reverse logic i.e. if speed-limits, signs and markings fail to get the message across, remove all limits, signs, markings and footpaths, and treat the whole of the village as a pedestrian right of way.
  Vehicles would have to give way to pedestrians.
• On a similar vein, paint the village roads, 
  from the A28 (The Length and Manor Road) to the Wantsum Way,
  Down Barton to Summer Road,
  Shuart Lane to Crumps Farm,
  with orange road marking paint and declare it a pedestrian area.
  There is no reason a village can not be colourful and conservation e.g. the Swiss villages.
• Putting a road through the far edge of the School House garden to make an exit for the school-run traffic.
  Another added, that a no-right turn exit to remove the conflict at the Down Barton/Court Road/The Street/Shuart Lane junction.
• A footpath across Belle Meadow from Manor Road to Bridges Close.
• Re-establishing, and maintaining,  the footpath from Shuart Lane to Sun Lane.
• Car Park/s

My grateful thanks to all the people who helped with the check-in, counting, and validation processes.