06/06/2021
Proposed cycle lanes Southport to Ainsdale.
Dear Healthpoint user,
I hope you don’t mind us contacting you in this way, but this situation is one that will severely damage our business and others. It will also adversely affect those visitors to our premises who need kerbside parking, or who need to be dropped off close to our premises.
This is not an opinion that we hold in being anti-cycling or cyclists, it is just common sense.
Liverpool Road is a very busy A-Road vital to vehicle traffic flow in and out of Southport. It is even more apparent how essential it is to not restrict this carriageway, when there are circumstances when the Coastal Road is closed. At these time, traffic can back up as far as Hillside.
Narrowing Liverpool Road by installing a bespoke cycle lane either side, prevents parking at the kerbside, and with the surge in online shopping, all the delivery vans will not be able to pull in.
When the refuse collection wagon travels down this route, traffic flow will be completely obstructed.
The Council’s answer is that residents, visitors to business premises, and delivery vans, should park in adjacent side streets. At the Ainsdale end of Liverpool Road, the road narrows, residents and business users, delivery vans, all need to park. The suggestion that everyone should park in the already congested Bradshaw’s Lane and Burnley Road is ludicrous.
A-Roads are there for a reason, to carry bulk traffic between locations. Apparently the Council are ignoring common sense, this proposal will narrow a very busy route, will push vehicle parking into smaller residential roads, and add a further negative affect on the businesses at the Ainsdale end of the proposed route.
At Healthpoint, many of our clients are elderly and have mobility and health reasons why they need to be able to be dropped off, or park within a short distance of the premises.
Where the cycle lanes have been introduced in Southport already, this was done without consultation, and has been detrimental to the businesses on Hoghton Street. In Bootle, the same…… and the cycle lanes are barely used.
If you feel you are able to support us by expressing your opinion against these proposals, please do it as soon as you can.
Sefton Council’s Your Streets, Your Say Consultation will close on June 27th
https://yourseftonyoursay.sefton.gov.uk/investment-programmes-and-infrastructure/southport-walking-and-cycling-route-south/
Contact the Council
0345 140 0845
transport.planning@sefton.gov.uk
Yours faithfully,
Andrew and Gill Boyle
Healthpoint
podiatry@healthpoint.co.uk
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