With Lancashire County Council spending a fortune of taxpayers money promoting the latest stage of the proposed northern bypass in local papers this week, campaigners against the plans are urging people to write to new councillors asking that the scheme be abandonned.
Transport Solutions for Lancaster and Morecambe, which is resolutely opposed to the scheme, is asking people to email new county councillors, and ask them to make their mark by stopping the monster road, and starting new initiatives to get the congested traffic moving again.
TSLM suggest writing to the Council’s new Cabinet, all the Conservatives, who are the new controlling group, and all councillors for the Lancaster area (their details are here on the campaign web site, Word format document).
“Please take this opportunity to tell the new councillors that Labour’s old link plan is too expensive, destructive and overblown and that cheaper and more effective plans for the district already exist,” urges TSLM’s co-ordinator David Gate. “We don’t want a debt mountain or an environmental nightmare, we just want to get the traffic moving again.”
The County Council argues it has promoted the new link between Heysham and the M6 as part of its undertaking to improve the inter-urban road network, and to provide for further development within the District of Lancaster, particularly in Morecambe and Heysham, and for expansion of the Port of Heysham.
• Lancashire County Council’s own web site has all the County Councillors’ details, including email addresses here.
• TSLM web site: http://heyshamm6link.info
• County Council’s M6 Link Page
(NB if this link does not work – the County Council seem to love to change the structure of their web site – go to their home page and use the “A-Z” to find “Heysham M6 Link”