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| Gantries
anger Murdock Way residents |
Families on a Walsall estate, which is just a stone's throw
from the busy M6, are up in arms following the installation
of two massive traffic gantries.
Furious residents in Beechdale say the new gantries are towering eyesores and
blots on the landscape.
Last week UKIP MEP Mike Nattrass, who is a member of the EU's Transport & Tourism
Committee, said that the M6 Toll, which is in private hands, is simply not working
as a relief road and the proposed price hikes will worsen that situation, driving
even more traffic onto the congested motorway in Walsall.
The gantries have been installed as part of a major controversial scheme to expand
the M6 motorway, following the failure of the M6 Toll to relieve the traffic
flow.
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Alan Sanders, who lives
in Murdock Way, said: "There's
going to be flashing lights on these gantries which
will flash in our homes.
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It is just crazy. The gantry outside our homes is
an absolute eyesore. The Highways Agency has not
taken residents into account.
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When I look out of my bedroom window all I can see
is this steel eyesore," he added.
Jane Roseblade, who also lives in Murdock Way, continued: "It
is absolutely stupid. The gantry is massive. God
only knows how it will look when there are lights
on it.
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I am 65 and I don't want this. It is disgusting,
the gantry is a right monstrosity and when they open
up the hard shoulder to traffic we will have more
noise and fumes. It is just not on."
Mike Nattrass UKIP MEP, added: "The installation
of the gantries is a further kick in the teeth for
the stressed residents.
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No one has listened to their justifiable comments
at the planning stage. They already have the increased
noise and polution issues from the widening and now
the blocked view.
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Why on earth these monsters must be built outside
these houses and not on the next stretch of M6, which
does not have residences adjoining, is an issue these
road planners will not answer.
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Perhaps these road spoilers should be made to live
next to the monster they have created.
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Some of these residents remember the days when these
were fields with horses, coming to their fence looking
for a sugar lump. Instead the residents now have
this bitter and unnecessary pill to swallow," he
added.
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