Dear
We need the bypass; I continue to work on this.
Kind Regards,
Stephen Phillips
Stephen Phillips QC MP
Member of Parliament for
Sleaford & North Hykeham
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
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Sent: 16 September 2011 18:00
To: PHILLIPS, Stephen
Subject: Lincoln Eastern Bypass
Stephen
Without the Bypass Lincoln will continue to become gridlocked as traffic has to pass through the city. Other cities in the area all have bypasses, even Motorway's.
The scandal is that Lincolnshire Council could not achieve this 20 years ago.It is also a scandal that we do not have a transport policy, including a road to rail scheme to get lorries off the inadequate roads. I travelled from the M61,M60,M67 to the bottleneck that is the Woodhead Pass and then to the M1.We still only have the M62 across Pennines which takes another 24 miles on the same journey.Lincolnshire has more than its fair share of single lane slow roads, which is uneconomic as it is time wasting. Inward investment into the area will not be encouraged by a poor transport infrastructure. We are expecting this project to be fast tracked and by the incumbent Tory MP's. Failure is not an option.
Claim that Lincoln eastern bypass is 'a waste of money' is rejected
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OFFICIALS have rejected a charity's claim that the eagerly-awaited Lincoln eastern bypass is a waste of public money.
Campaign For Better Transport says the 4.88-mile route, costing £12,787 a metre, has one of the five highest council contributions of all new road schemes nationally.
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CONGESTION: Traffic in Broadgate, Lincoln.
Lincolnshire County Council's Government funding bid cites the total cost of the road as £95.8 million.
The authority wants Department For Transport (DFT) funding to the tune of £50 million to make the project happen.
Its own contribution is £13.5 million and it is now underwriting £32.3 million in developer contributions.
The transport charity says this means the council's overall contribution is £45.9 million – more than three-and-half times the £13 million original estimate.
Sian Berry, Campaign For Better Transport's sustainable transport campaigner, said: "The expense of this scheme is all the more hard to justify when there are proven solutions that are cheaper.
"Local people should be outraged at just how much this road to nowhere is going to costing them."
The bypass – from Wragby Road to the A15 south of Bracebridge Heath – is one of 45 transport projects nationally vying for Government cash.
The county council will discover if it is successful by Christmas. The road could be ready by 2017.
The county council's assistant director of highways and transportation, Paul Coathup, said: "We are making a contribution of £13.6 million and acting as guarantor for the £32.3 million third party element to put our bid to the DFT for a £50 million contribution in the strongest possible position.
"Taxpayers won't be out of pocket."
Lincoln MP Karl McCartney said he guessed the charity had not consulted city residents.
He said: "Their headline-seeking sensationalist opinions are not representative of the view of local taxpayers and voters which is that the eastern bypass would be beneficial."
Motorist John Marcon, 66, of Cherry Willingham, said: "We need this road now but it should be a dual carriageway. We need a full ring road.
"It is not a huge amount of money and I think the Government should pay a lot more of it than the local council."
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