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Fareham - Gosport link would damage wildlife
8:14am Friday 16th October 2009
A MULTI-million pound high-speed bus link between Fareham and Gosport would have a “devastating impact” on bats and badgers, a Court has heard.
A judicial review at London’s High Court challenging the scheme heard plans for the new £20m route to ease traffic on the clogged roads between the two towns pose a great threat to the local environment.
Viv Morge, 57, who lives just yards from a new access way that would serve the bus link, said she was worried she and other residents will be plagued by noise from round-the-clock construction work set to last until 2011.
The council says extensive consultation showed most people backed the bus link, and did not consider the scheme to be controversial.
Legal arguments are due to be completed today, but Judge Bidder is expected to reserve his decision and issue a judgement in writing at a later date
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Derek of Dibden Purlieu, Hampshire says...
11:27am Fri 16 Oct 09
forest hump wrote:Joined up thinking doesn't come easily does it?
Here we go again. Why don't we let the animals govern this country? Since when should the existence of dung beetles and the like, dictate how we should improve our infrastructure? These creatures are very resourceful and will simply move elsewhere. These environmentalists and animal rights fundamentalists should get a life
pqp, Southampton says...
12:51pm Fri 16 Oct 09
Spokesman for the Animals, Nursling says...
2:01pm Fri 16 Oct 09
forest hump, hythe says...
2:24pm Fri 16 Oct 09
Zeo, Southampton says...
2:35pm Fri 16 Oct 09
Brite Spark, Stubbington says...
2:36pm Fri 16 Oct 09
Spokesman for the Animals wrote:I blame the frogs, they should be ostricsised because there aren't enough pelican or zebra crossings. The council leader 'Albert Ross' is a bit of a hawk, and is absolutely raven whilst he swans around the local duck islands. The council are always lion to us, acting like baboons, whilst we beaver away at work like wombats. We shouldn't have to panda to them, they do this on porpoise. It's another Groundhog day for the local residents as they pull their hare out and become bald eagles, like hyenas who have swallowed an oxo cube and made laughing stocks of themselves.
Bats should Badger the council a bit more.
soton1980, Southampton/Fareham says...
3:43pm Fri 16 Oct 09
Andy Locks Heath, says...
3:52pm Fri 16 Oct 09
soton1980 wrote:Agreed. Of course had we been in Scotland, funding would have been found to reinstate the Gosport railway, just as it has to reinstate the 35 mile Waverley Link to towns no larger than Romsey. However in England our job is simply to keep quiet and bail out failed Scottish Banks to the tune of £40bn and then use what is left of our tax via the Barnett Formula to ship funds north of the border for schemes such as the Edinburgh tram system.
Like I said yesterday, I think they should bring back the railway and make a proper connection to the national rail network. That would ease congestion considerably more than this half-arsed 'high speed' bus link. Direct trains to Portsmouth, Fareham and Southampton Central would be difficult to resist for a lot of commuters who currently use their cars. As for the badgers and bats, I think every effort should be made to avoid and preserve their habitats, but something needs to be done or the situation with Gosport's traffic problems will only get worse!
(Barnett formula: a Home Office calculation that spends avge £1200 per head on each Scot and avge £900 per head on each English person)
downfader, southampton says...
10:21pm Fri 16 Oct 09
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We also have to remember that we as industrious souls have ploughed the hell out of the land, killed off a whole range of species for good and poisoned the air. Its not environmentalism or "animal rights" to say this, its common sense that it cant continue, and shoving your head in the sand will only make it get worse.
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forest hump, hythe says...
8:33am Fri 16 Oct 09