The village became a scene of traffic chaos, yet again, yesterday afternoon after another serious accident blocked the A396, this time in the Bickliegh area. Police blocked off Fore street to northbound non local, traffic after the narrow street became blocked with both north and southbound diverted traffic trying to get through the centre of the village. The diversions continued well into the evening.
As far as is known the accident was yet another example of a young driver going too fast on a road whose A status is seriously open to question. There should be a serious campaign mounted to upgrade the A396 in an era when increased traffic flow and the easy availability of powerful cars to young motorists create a lethal combination. Accidents like this yet again highlight the serious planning defiancies that have blighted the massive growth in road use over the past 30 years. Its easy to draw the wider lesson that successive governments have failed massively in being prepared to provide sufficent investment for infrastructure in a part of the world where demand for transport and housing have now created major strains on the system.
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