community improvement thingy..
From:
Tess Green
Date:
Jul 02 14:54 UTC
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You are quite right Stephanie, so don't hide! Tree planting where
ever there's room is a great idea and the "grey areas" should be
prioritised for traffic calming such as chicanes with trees out into
the present carriageway at intervals to slow the traffic. Tess
On 2 Jul 2008, at 05:19, stephanie wardle wrote:
> Hello
>
> A fantastic improvement for the deprived and neglected Marksbury
> Area would be planting lots of trees along the road- it would of
> course transform the area visually and make it appealing rather
> than monotonous and depressing and grey as at present, and it would
> also improve the air quality in this area which is infamously poor
> due to it being the bottom of the valley. It would also prevent
> drivers from persistently parking on the pavements and forcing
> pushchairs, wheelchairs and pedestrians to walk in the road.
>
> While we're at it, a strategically placed selection of Sleeping
> Policemen would prevent Marksbury Road from continuing to be both a
> boy racer rally course and a rat run.
>
> I feel that Southville actually has quite a few facilities already,
> and what with the Marksbury Area Green Space being threatened by a
> rapid transit route and resultant further erosion of the quality of
> the environment in an already grim area, then Marksbury should be
> prioritised for community improvement over other, rather nicer
> areas... hides behind (skanky) sofa...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steph Wardle
>
>
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