‘Incinerator will make road more dangerous’

Friday 30th January 2009, 2:55PM GMT.

00611760_cropped.jpgST HELIER Constable Simon Crowcroft has warned that the incinerator will worsen what is already becoming a dangerous road in Havre des Pas.

Following complaints from Green Street residents, who say that the current ‘priority’ system there does not stop speeding or illegal parking, Mr Crowcroft is urging Transport and Technical Services to look at new measures to make the road safer.

One resident told the Constable that that illegal parking in the street was making it difficult for him and his wheelchair-bound wife to walk into town, while others say that cars illegally parked in the bend of the road block the view of oncoming traffic.

A chicane-like ‘priority’ system was put in place in Green Street, owned by TTS, several years ago after pedestrians had reported that they were almost hit by speeding cars because the pavement and the road were too narrow.

But the system is not working and Mr Crowcroft is worried that it will worsen when the incinerator is sited at La Collette. ‘This is going to be one of St Helier’s prime residential areas and we don’t want excess traffic,’ he said. ‘There is some interruption of the fast-moving traffic with the chicane-like “priority” system but that isn’t stopping illegal parking, which is making the road dangerous.’

• Picture: St Helier Constable Simon Crowcroft in Green Street


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  1. 1
    Phil

    I fail to see how the new incinerator will make this road more dangerous? did I miss something?

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  2. 2
    david brown

    it makes no difference where the incinerator is we will still be on the road to use it.

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  3. 3
    Rob Whittle

    So why can’t Jersey have Best Available Technology to convert waste safety with next to zero as, like Bahamas, Ottawa or Vancouver.

    Idiots that signed and committed to the comtract need a brain transplant.

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  4. 4
    tony durbin

    Rob Whittle

    Babcock Wilcox Volund / Advanced recycling Technologies offered the Island the BAT for a saving of more than £30 million !!.
    This long established Danish engineering presorts all waste,recovering everything useful/reuseable – generates multi-megawatt biomass carbon neutral power and heat.Produces minimal, clean ash and scrubber residues ( totalling less than 10% by input weight against 28% of highly contaminated ash from an incinerator).

    Since I suspect the French priced their incinerator at £93.31 million when the UK pound was worth around 30% more than it is today – is the Treasury having to find even more cash to make up the exchange rate loss in the value of £ against the Euro ??? If not – this clearly indicates the French bid was grossly over-priced in the first place and the tax payers have been conned !!!!

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