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Flooding at the Trumpet Major Junction Picture: Trevor Bevins AT LAST – work is to start this week on solving the flooding problems at three locations on Dorchester bypass. Engineers will also install motion sensitive Toucan lights at the Stadium Roundabout to improve safety while crossing five lanes of traffic for cyclists and pedestrian. Other works planned in the area by Highways England and Dorset Council include completing the gaps around Dorchester on the national cycle route which runs from Portishead to Portland and stopping verge parking outside McDonalds. The news was given to a Dorchester town council meeting on Monday evening by Cllr Roland Tarr, who represents parishes south of the county town on Dorset Council.
Free parking for NHS staff and care workers will continue in Dorset Council car parks MORE cash could be squeezed out of drivers in Dorset – according to a councillor for the rural area around Dorchester. Cllr Roland Tarr told a meeting on Thursday that the council was missing out on the potential for extra income. “The general parking situation is total chaos. We have the worst parking arrangements in our towns compared to anywhere I have been in the last five or six years. Everywhere else if you park on the street, you pay money, you dial it in on your phone or if you are local, or elderly you have a permit.