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Richmond town centre
Dave Arquati wrote:
Richmond seems like a nice place. It has a pleasant riverside, a good variety of shops, and pretty good public transport. It's a shame it seems to be totally clogged with cars. The environment outside the railway station is pretty unpleasant, and makes a stark contrast from the riverside. The bus station is also in a very odd place and seemed to be rather poorly used (considering it serves such a busy town) when I passed through it. It was probably the only available site, and it's not bad from an operational point of view, being just off the one-way system. But the stops on the roads in the town centre are more convenient for most people. What consideration has been given to closing the road outside the station to private vehicles, given that they can't stop there anyway to visit the shops as there are stopping restrictions along the entire length of the street? Church Road looks like an appropriate diversionary route on paper, but is it so in practice? Well, for a start, there's a public car park next to the station, though it might be possible to construct a different access to it. There were plans for pedestrianisation in the 1970s which never came to anything. Not sure if the subject has been raised more recently. Church Road is fine off-peak for traffic entering Richmond from the A316, but in the other direction tailbacks from the Richmond Circus roundabout (A316/A307 junction) clog the right turn out of Church Road. -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) |
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