Common sense changing lanes
Editor News editor I agree entirely with Shaun Kelly (KM Letters, August 24).
I too would like to know who signed off the plans for the road layout at the junction of Hermitage Lane and the entrance to the new retail park and if they are being held responsible for the months of traffic congestion and the cost of re-designing and implementing the road layout there.
Anyone with any common sense at all would have known the present layout was always going to cause problems. It seems while these people might have some sort of qualification in traffic management, they are sorely lacking in that essential qualification – common sense.
I say this because there are, and have been, many examples in and around Maidstone of changes to road layouts which have, in fact, made the situation dangerous.
One example was when the approach lanes to the Running Horse roundabout from the Penenden Heath direction were changed so if you wanted to take the exit for Aylesford, contrary to common sense you had to approach in the right-hand lane, where anyone who needed to go in that direction, found themselves having to dodge other traffic, which still used the old, common sense way.
I was one of the many who complained about this and eventually the lanes were changed back to the original layout.
If in the future these sorts of changes are going to be made, for goodness sake, make the plans easily accessible to the general public, and take note of those who use their common sense to see the obvious. Derrick Coward Larkfield phone book), our answering service is 01622 675556, email maidstone@ mssociety.org.uk and our website is www.mssociety.org.uk/maidstone. On the website there is our newsletter with other information.
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I then drove out of town and saw a group of protesters again with union flags and music.
And then the penny dropped. They were a group of fascists protesting about the development and expansion of the current Maidstone Mosque.
It makes me ashamed to be British to see this type of blatant prejudice, xenophobia and racism towards our Muslim community.
We should embrace diversity and be setting an example to other communities of how to be tolerant and unprejudiced.
I would like those affected by this shameful behaviour to be reassured not everybody is as unkind.
I welcome all faiths, creeds and ethnicities, and feel we are a richer community for our rich cultural differences.
If we could learn to live harmoniously alongside one another the world would be a better, safer place for everyone. Name and address supplied families with problem debt.
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