Comment
Draft Greater Norwich Local Plan – Part 1 The Strategy
Representation ID: 19902
Received: 11/02/2020
Respondent: Professor Stephen Church
This is a wildly optimistic reading of transport links: the rail network to the midlands is served by poorly maintained, old rolling stock, and it's service is pre-modern; the line to London in laughably slow and unreliable. The cycle 'network' is a patchwork of poorly maintained, often short 'cycle paths' which share pavement space with pedestrians. And while the A47 does indeed 'connect' Norwich to Peterborough, it is actually quicker to go A11 then A14 to get to Peterborough. The purpose of a report is not to be a sales pitch, it is to report facts.
This is a wildly optimistic reading of transport links: the rail network to the midlands is served by poorly maintained, old rolling stock, and it's service is pre-modern; the line to London in laughably slow and unreliable. The cycle 'network' is a patchwork of poorly maintained, often short 'cycle paths' which share pavement space with pedestrians. And while the A47 does indeed 'connect' Norwich to Peterborough, it is actually quicker to go A11 then A14 to get to Peterborough. The purpose of a report is not to be a sales pitch, it is to report facts.