We need Shores Green slip roads (From Witney Gazette)

Anyone who believes that the SGSR will magically solve Witney's traffic problems are going to be very disappointed.

When (or if) it's built, it's opening will barely scratch the surface of traffic jams and congestion in the town.

Whilst it will be handy for the small percentage of traffic going from one side of the town to the other, for the vast majority of vehicles wanting to get from North and East Witney into the centre of town, it will be a lengthy and time-consuming diversion, via a Station Lane junction already over-used.

Do we have to waste another £5 or £6 Million to discover that the Shores Green option is a white elephant?

richwitney deserves a medal for stamina but not for clear thinking and intelligent judgement.

He's evidently trying to bore us into submission in the vain hope that we'll accept his groundless assertion that the SGSR scheme is a white elephant.

Two facts for poor richwitnney to ruminate on:

1 the Oxfordshire County Council's own traffic analysis data show SGSR to achieve very similar benefits to those that would have been achieved by the CLR

2 the independent planning inspector and the Conservative Secretary of State for Transport judged SGSR to be a clearly superior scheme.

Will richwitney tell us what his credentials are for arriving at such a perverse and stubbornly bovine conclusion? My guess is that he has no relevant recognised qualifications of any sort to justify or explain his strange fixation s about a scheme that has never made sound sense. If I'm wrong about his credentials, I'm sure he'll be quick to correct me.