one comment
on the proposed new road at Fishwick as recorded on the Scottish Borders Council Website is from a 'neighbour' and wannabe developer Farmer C. He talks about the dangers of the present road and the 'bad' corner during the Fishwick morning and evening rushhours. Rushhour? I wonder if Farmer C would recognise one of them things in the real world outside the Merse. If evey householder at Fishwick left their houses simultaneously at 8-30 am to head for the metropoli of Berwick, Duns and Kelso that would mean 8 cars on the road for about 75 yards until they had a choice of direction on the Berwick-Swinton Super Highway with its traffic of about 30 cars an hour. Add to that Mr C himself, Farmer N, two house guests, 2 builders vehicles, three tractors and the solitary fisherman who comes to the Tweed every other Wednesday you will be getting nearly 40 vehicle movements on a two mile stretch of road on a good day-80% of which never reach the 'bad' corner.
Most comments on the website favour the road-and the roads department are positively drooling over the prospect of 200 yards of brand new tarmac to their specifications and at someone else's expense. And does anyone want to recognise that this whole exercise borders( no pun intended) on a scam: Build an unnecessary road across good farming land thus creating an infill sight just the right size for six spanking new houses. Oh yes we need to sell the housing sites to pay for the road. And a lttle over for luck But the road.....There's a hole in my bucket Dear Liza a hole. And the biggest one will be in the Local Plan if this goes through.
Yes, no sign of the Happy Event, since you ask.
And don't mention the Ashes. Ever.
Or at least until 2009.
