Pickering's Farm: 1,100-home development could hinge on travel time increases of 'less than the length of a song on the radio'
The roundabout junction at Stanifield Lane, Lostock Lane, Watkin Lane and Farington Road is one of those that Lancashire County Council is concerned about
The authority concluded that the submitted document did not meet the borough’s “policy requirements” - and rejected both it and the associated housing applications. Neil Stevens, strategic highways planning manager at the authority, said that “mitigation” work would be required at a range of junctions in order to enable them to cope with the extra traffic, as several of them were already operating above their capacity.He highlighted existing delays at three linked junctions in the Tardy Gate area - where Watkin Lane meets Brownedge Road and, separately, Jubilee Road; and also the intersection between Leyland Road and Coote Lane. Mr.
Mr. Katkowski asked Mr. Stevens whether he was really saying that “increases in peak hours of less than the time [it takes] to listen to one song on your radio…would be correctly and aptly described as severe in the sense of being very great in terms of their impact?” “It’s already slow [and] it becomes a tad slower - it’d be barely perceptible…no-one would know if they were driving a mile an hour slower,” Mr. Katkowski declared.
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