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Council apologises for Maidenhead roadworks that have caused traffic chaos

Council apologises for Maidenhead roadworks that have caused traffic chaos
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Windsor & Maidenhead seek new active travel ideas

after previous plans were heavily rejected. A ‘big conversation’ is planned by the council and wants to hear the views from locals on how they can spend the £335,000 active travel fund from government to upgrade its cycling and walking infrastructure. A public consultation will be held later this year and will include the opportunity to put forward ideas on how best to spend the grant. Everyone can submit their views both online and postal. A consultation earlier this year saw thousands of people respond to a number of proposed walking and cycling schemes. Residents heavily rejected two low traffic neighbourhoods in West Windsor and a bus gate on Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead.

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Windsor & Maidenhead Council scraps controversial active travel plans

Shoppenhanger Road THE controversial low traffic neighbourhoods and bus gate schemes have been scrapped after thousands of residents said no. The Royal Borough council has announced both these plans will not go ahead after a majority of respondents to their four-week online consultation and those who attended a virtual town hall meeting were vehemently against it. The government awarded the council £335,000 in second tranche funding from the active travel fund – which is to improve walking and cycling routes in the borough. Plans for two low traffic neighbourhoods in West Windsor – which would involve road closures and modal filters at specific junctions – saw 2,221 responses with 90 per cent opposed to the proposal.

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Flin Flon, 1927-37: Booms, busts, strikes and rogue cows

As 1927 drew to a close, the fledgling Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co., Limited was incorporated. Operations would not begin until 1930, a timeframe indicative of the enormous task of establishing a functioning mining and processing operation in a remote northern outpost. Years later, retired HBM&S general manager W.A. (Baldy) Green would summarize the magnitude of the project in a letter quoted by the book Flin Flon: “In retrospect I feel that all those good people who pioneered those early days have something to be proud of in their part of rolling back the frontier of the north. In a space of two and one half years, a railroad was built. A hydro-electric plant erected on the Churchill River. A high-voltage power line built from Island Falls to Flin Flon. An extensive and complex metallurgical plant built at Flin Flon, a portion of Flin Flon Lake dammed and dewatered. Both underground and open-pit mining operation established.”

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Windsor & Maidenhead councillors raise questions over active travel ideas

The consultation ends on February 9. Councillor Jon Davey (West Windsor Residents’ Association: Clewer & Dedworth West) said: “The big issue is information and how it flowed through. “We haven’t been advised about this scheme in the way it is now. “This was about cycling to start with. This is so far removed from just cycling now and that was the shocker because it was supposed to be about a nice little cycle route for those who like cycling.” However, Chris Joyce, head of infrastructure, refuted this, saying ward councillors have been briefed and have shared information on the development of the projects before the consultation launched on January 12.

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