For some reason the St Albans Review waited a week before publishing the backlash against the anonymous letter writer who thought housing generated more cars that a supermarket. Perhaps Tesco thought that we'd all gone away...
However, there were four letters in response this week! Thanks to Pete Milne, Simon Hepburn, J Copley and Eric Roberts of the Civic Society for their letters. As usual here are some extracts...
"Anon says how nice it would be to walk to a 'town centre' store. The proposed store is no more in the centre than Sainsbury's. I doubt if anon would shop in St Peter's Street and walk to Tesco and back for nappies."
"The shops in St Albans city centre are quiet at the moment. Another edge of town superstore will make matters worse for them. I would like to see the return of one or two hour free parking instead of the voucher system and better cycling paths around St Albans."
"Stop once and for all trying to make out that a superstore here on the Evershed's site is in a 'town centre' location. It isn't. The real St Albans city centre, in particular its shops and markets, needs all the support it can get, not the threat of further trade extraction."
"The maximum capacity for traffic up London Road is 4-500 cars per hour. I know because I've counted them. Any traffic above this level just queues back towards London Colney and along Alma Road."
"The London Road site is extremely well positioned for access to the Thameslink railway station and bus interchange. Most people living in the area don't drive to work and we'd assume the same would be true of new residents. St Albans has to build new houses - if they are not built here but on the Green Belt there will be a much greater increase in traffic."
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