Despite a report that took nearly nine months to complete and compile...the answer to the severe problems that Tunbridge Wells is facing with the traffic situation, has still not reached a compromise or a resolving of the situation.
There were radical ideas put forward to ease the traffic problem; this could well be accomplished by schools opening at 0800am, thus the parents bringing their children to school would have dropped their children off, and departed from the area of the drop off point, well before the main volume of traffic hit the towns main roads.
Another idea that was recommended was that the bus lane on the A26, could have sections of it removed and give the vast amount of traffic passing through that area the means to keep the flow of traffic constantly moving, and making a “clear path” for vehicles, and prevent hold-ups and traffic jams.
These ideas although possibly appropriate to the situation, and could benefit the town and assist in solving the traffic congestion on the main roads of the town, have still not solved the immediate problem, and there are serious indications that this will take some future months of serious endeavour to resolve.
One councillor commented, that the Kent Count Council were responsible for the highways of the county, and therefore, should fund the the recommended proposals that have been put forward.
Whatever the outcome of the suggestions, proposals, and recommendations that are put forward, and these will certainly will take place in the coming weeks and months, is that a solution is hoped for very much by the many businesses, shops, and local residents of the town, in that the outcome of all these discussions, debates, and disagreements, will certainly assist those in authority in trying to resolve the congested traffic problem that it is causing such severe problems within the town of Tunbridge Wells.
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