Comment
Draft North East Cambridge Area Action Plan
Representation ID: 53293
Received: 02/10/2020
Respondent: Old Chesterton Residents' Association
The failure to recognise the existing deficiencies of the transport network and address them is the greatest weakness of the action plan at present. Wishful thinking will not prevent those deficiencies continuing to be a burden on local communities. The Fen Road level crossing is a major constraint on East Chesterton and Chesterton Fen with its growing domestic and busiess activity. Local people have identified a suitable solution without which much of the potential benefit of an area action plan will not be realised until it is included. The level crossing must be bypassed so that the increased rail traffic can move freely and so can local traffic. The simplest method appears to be a road into Chesterton Fen aligned with the A14 to join the Fen end of Fen Road and more suitable to the traffic currently using the level crossing. Chesterton comprises several working communities for whom cycle paths and cycling infrastructure are simply inadequate. Their needs should also be addressed.
The failure to recognise the existing deficiencies of the transport network and address them is the greatest weakness of the action plan at present. Wishful thinking will not prevent those deficiencies continuing to be a burden on local communities. The Fen Road level crossing is a major constraint on East Chesterton and Chesterton Fen with its growing domestic and busiess activity. Local people have identified a suitable solution without which much of the potential benefit of an area action plan will not be realised until it is included. The level crossing must be bypassed so that the increased rail traffic can move freely and so can local traffic. The simplest method appears to be a road into Chesterton Fen aligned with the A14 to join the Fen end of Fen Road and more suitable to the traffic currently using the level crossing. Chesterton comprises several working communities for whom cycle paths and cycling infrastructure are simply inadequate. Their needs should also be addressed.