Online: plans to transform Twydall’s roads

Medway Council has now published online detailed plans to transform Twydall’s roads.

The self-styled Twydall Accessibility Project aims to improve accessibility for Twydall’s pedestrians and cyclists, particularly pupils from Twydall’s several primary schools and it’s popular selective secondary school.

At the heart of the proposals, open for public consultation until Monday 26 October, is a plan to turn Twydall’s roads into a massive 20mph zone, enforced by a series of traffic calming measures.

The proposals have already been met by opposition from some Twydall residents, who are citing it a ‘waste of money’.

Paul Tring, from Eastcourt Lane, said that ‘ [this plan s]eems like another total waste of money to me. They don?t enforce the current 30mph limit at the moment so the occasional idiot that drives up our road at high speed (usually late at night) is hardly likely to observe the new limit’.

Twydall Man called it a ‘[t]otal expensive overkill’, before expressing his concerns for Twydall Green’s sustainability. ‘How can you reduce the width of Twydall Lane, how will the shopping centre survive if delivery vehicles find it impossible to get there. Will buses have to slim down to get through the estate?’.

AlanWCollins is reserving comment while this author attempts to digest the many proposals put forward for Twydall’s roads. However, one positive sign is the proposal to place parking spaces for residents in some of the busiest roads to the side of the carriageway, as is already the case in Beechings Way and Eastcourt Lane.