Re: Does Banwell need a bypass « Reply #1 on Sept 26, 2004, 3:06pm »
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For years traffic has found its way through the narrows at Banwell. That it hasn't ground to a complete halt is testimony to the many drivers who regularly give and take. The management schemes might upset this status quo but whether it happens sooner as a result is of no importance - it will happen as traffic continues to build. Travel is comparatively easy in the direction of the M5, A370 and A38 but cutting across is a far less easy task. Thats why the road is used - that is why it needs to be improved. Banwell needs to be by passed and it needs to be soon.
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Re: Does Banwell need a bypass « Reply #2 on Sept 30, 2004, 3:54pm »
Banwell does NOT need a by pass going the way it is planned to go! already the shops are down on takings, do you lot care no i think not, you wish to live in a dead village
Re: Does Banwell need a bypass « Reply #3 on Oct 17, 2004, 7:22am »
May be Banwell dose NOT need a bypass?
Maybe our savior will be the rumoured road linking the "new" 21a motorway junction and the airport! This is needed if they are to continue with the development of RAF loking. This rumoured road will bypass banwell, sandford, and i assume churchill.
If these rumours are true surly they have more chance of being passed as they will have millions of pound behind them in the form of the developers. Maybe this is why North somerset are so reluctant to support the Banwell bypass!
Re: Does Banwell need a bypass « Reply #4 on Oct 17, 2004, 8:22am »
you may be right, but don't get coned into thinking that a link road will solve the Banwell Traffic problem. over 50% of HGv are deemed local, so would always be able to use Banwell, even if the link road allowed us to have an HGV restriction in Banwell.
I cant see that people leaving a developed RAF Locking, half of which is due to be industrial estate, will not use the road through Banwell.
Also realize that the development of RAF Locking is stating NEXT YEAR. a link road, which would be a totally new route, would take at least 8 years!
Re: Does Banwell need a bypass « Reply #5 on Oct 20, 2004, 10:11pm »
TEXTI find it incredulous that someone actually thinks that it would be a good idea to knock houses down in Banwell to relieve the problem! Clearly a man - his name is Nigel WSM - who never walks anywhere. Why don't we knock his house as it would relieve the traffic problem no end!
On a serious note, we were driving through Banwell from WsM to get to Bristol where my parents live in the Summer and saw the most ridiculous site of a 4-wheel drive towing a caravan coming from the A38 into Banwell and turning left to go up the hill out of Banwell - if you understand where I am talking about - and surprise - it got stuck! There was a huge HGV in the traffic behind and I said to my husband how relieved I was not to be stuck behind that. But Banwell is continuously stuck with that through no fault of their own. As the bypass has been talked about since 1947 why does North Somerset Council do something innovative - get off their bums and do something whilst they are still in power! A tall order I know but the people of Banwell have every right to have a lovely village kept lovely. It is not their fault that people pull up in their cars outside shops when they could walk from the car park and cause hours of traffic. I'm a non-driver but I can see common sense at work at the suggestion of a bypass for Banwell. I understand how the other villages feel but Banwell is 100% affected and suffering. How would anyone like it if someone took a chunk out of their house/shop!
Re: Does Banwell need a bypass « Reply #6 on Oct 22, 2004, 8:48am »
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Yes Banwell needs a bypass, I remember "sit ins" in the village 20 years ago demanding a bypass and the villagers are still waiting! Turning the lorries away from Banwell is not the answer as they use the B3134 which has become a nightmare. Good luck with your campaign
Re: Does Banwell need a bypass « Reply #7 on Nov 12, 2004, 3:56am »
I have lived in Weston since 1974, and have travelled through Banwell more times than I care to remember. Each time however one had to leave extra time for the journey, just in case one got stuck in the village. This hasn't changed, it's just got worse, and with the ludicrous humps that have just been added, who in thier right minds gave the go ahead for them? The shops won't suffer from the by-pass, the locals will still use them, and the delightful buildings will not be damaged. It's high time the so called powers got together and did something constructive, instead of just drawing a wage packet and not wanting to rock the boat.
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Re: Does Banwell need a bypass « Reply #8 on Nov 12, 2004, 4:33am »
to answer PIP the shops are already have a reduced amount of customers, as people do not realize that they can park for a limited time outside, also, the shops rely on passing trade, if the shops have to rely on the local people they will be closed in six months, the humps are as you say a stupid idea, the answer as i have said before is to pay compensation and knock down a few houses and widen the road, i am not the only one to think this way, if the by-pass goes the route it is planned to, the result will be far worse than leaving things as they are, it seems most just can't see this, some that do just don't want to, others just don't care, the total fault of all this is with the council, a new road could have been put in when the flyover was built, andwhen the land from the fly-over to RAF locking is covered with houses, it will be to late they shold put a road in now, out across the country to the A38 or up to join the bristol road at the safeway round a bout, or both, but the councill will not do that, roads do not make money houses do.
Re: Does Banwell need a bypass « Reply #9 on Feb 2, 2006, 9:51am »
Banwell needs love and attention not a bypass ripping out the heart and soul of the village, without the traffic Banwell would turn into a ghost town. The chavs, already rife throughout our village, would consume everything. We would be left with a dead village ruled by the scum of the earth: chavs. DO NOT BYPASS BANWELL.
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