Local County Councillors from Newsham and South Blyth have been accused of going into hiding over the claims that huge traffic congestion in Northumberland’s largest Town, Blyth, was caused through the complete lack of supervision from them as elected members Daniel Carr and Chris Humphrey and their Council.
Local people from the town who have linked the closure of their highways network with the closure of both their Town centre by the leading party at County Hall, the Conservatives desire to break up Blyth communities is getting closer each and every commuter day. One of the Trumpian tools they are using is to force all retail trade to take place in the nearby Town of Cramlington, a town they see as the secondary space to Morpeth and Ponteland where most investment in real help for people has taken place since May 2017.
Travel journeys on both Laverock Hall road (pictured) and Cowpen Road to the north of the Town has been brought to a desperate standstill on regular and ongoing occasions, both roads handle 20,000 vehicles each and every day with the same anti-car County Council planning to reduce the width of Cowpen Road by a third to accommodate cyclists. An alteration that a major cycling organisation and Blyth Town Council has come out against.
The major highway reduction in such a busy and pressurised zone will also place increased traffic numbers onto Laverock Hall Road and dangerous traffic movements on the only cross town road available in Blyth from Newsham to Cowpen which will seriously damage the towns secondary retail space sited along Cowpen Road.
These drastic changes affecting local communities and running down the Towns ability to recover after covid, will and is already running down Blyth’s shopping visitor numbers and achieving the Conservatives disastrous for locals main aim.
Councillor’s Carr and Humphrey it's time you got out from the stones your sheltering under and admit your team is attempting to engineer Blyth’s communities to change it from a local happy place to live into a commuting society without a heart.
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