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Douglas, Wednesday, 10Th July 2002 at 10.30 A.M REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF TYNWALD COURT (DEBATES AND OTHER MATTERS) Douglas, Wednesday, 10th July 2002 at 10.30 a.m. Present: The President of Tynwald (the Hon N Q Cringle). In the Council: The Lord Bishop (the Rt Rev Noël Debroy Jones), the Attorney-General (Mr W J H Corlett QC), Hon Mrs C M Christian, Messrs E A Crowe, D F K Delaney, J R Kniveton, E G Lowey, Dr E J Mann, Messrs J N Radcliffe and G H Waft, with Mrs M Cullen, Clerk of the Council. In the Keys: The Speaker (the Hon J A Brown) (Castletown); Mr D M Anderson (Glenfaba); Hon A R Bell and Mr L I Singer (Ramsey); Mr R E Quine OBE (Ayre); Mr J D Q Cannan (Michael); Mrs H Hannan (Peel); Hon S C Rodan (Garff); Mr P Karran, Hon R K Corkill and Mr A J Earnshaw (Onchan); Mr G M Quayle (Middle); Messrs J R Houghton and R W Henderson (Douglas North); Hon D C Cretney and Mr A C Duggan (Douglas South); Hon R P Braidwood and Mrs B J Cannell (Douglas East); Hon A F Downie and Hon J P Shimmin (Douglas West); Mr D J Gelling (Malew and Santon); Hon J Rimington Mr Q B Gill and Hon Mrs P M Crowe (Rushen); with Mr M Cornwell-Kelly, Clerk of Tynwald. The Lord Bishop took the prayers. Douglas Inner Link Road – Construction of Road Island – Expenditure Approved The President: Now, hon. members, when we adjourned yesterday we had reached and completed item 13 on the order paper, so we start this morning’s deliberations at item 14. Item 14. The Minister for Transport to move: That Tynwald approves of the Department of Transport incurring expenditure not exceeding the sum of £2,200,000 in respect of the construction of phase 4 (Road Island) of the Douglas inner link road. The President: I call on the Minister for Transport to move. Mr Shimmin: Thank you, Mr President. The proposed scheme follows on from the phase 3 scheme approved by Tynwald in October 2001 to create the new 250-metre section of road and railway bridge at Kewaigue, which is presently under construction. The phase 4 Road Island scheme before members today comprises widening the A24 Road Island road between Kewaigue Hill on the A6 Kewaigue Road and Spring Valley roundabout and increasing the capacity of Spring Valley roundabout. A new footway will link the Anagh Coar estate with Kewaigue School and so complete the footway link to the White Hoe and Douglas. Planning approval has been obtained for the project as the final phase of the Douglas inner link. The completion of the Douglas inner link road will enable traffic from the Spring Valley trading estate and Ballacottier Business Park to travel directly to the centre of Douglas, avoiding Quarterbridge, as well as assisting traffic flows between lower Douglas and Anagh Coar, Farmhill and Foxdale. When completed, the scheme will encourage vehicles travelling directly between the south of the Island and Douglas via Kewaigue to travel by way of the modified Spring Valley roundabout and the widened Road Island road. The modifications to the Spring Valley roundabout will increase its capacity to provide for its use by this diverted traffic travelling to and from the south of the Island. The circulatory lanes approaching and within the Spring Valley roundabout will be augmented so the traffic arriving from the south and heading towards the harbour via Kewaigue will not be held up by traffic waiting to proceed down the new Castletown Road towards Quarterbridge. Also, the additional circulatory capacity will provide slip lanes for traffic moving between adjacent roads at the junction. This is so that local traffic movement around Douglas will not normally conflict with traffic travelling between the south and lower Douglas. At the junction of Road Island road with Kewaigue Hill priority will be given to the through traffic which is travelling along the widened Road Island road to or from the modified Spring Valley roundabout. Here there will be a proper waiting and turning facility for vehicles waiting to turn onto the road to the energy-from-waste plant. This will comprise a central waiting lane so that lorries turning right to the plant will not create a tailback of traffic which is proceeding towards Kewaigue from the Spring Valley roundabout. For pedestrians the widened road between Spring Valley roundabout and Kewaigue will be provided with a footway. This will be of considerable benefit to parents and pedestrians walking children or, as pedestrians, to and from the school area in Kewaigue. The construction works of the scheme will cost in total £2.2 million. The works will be carried out by the Department of Transport’s engineering works division, with the construction programme to commence in August 2002 if Tynwald approves the motion and be completed in September 2003. Mr President, this scheme has been programmed for a number of years and seems to have considerable support. However, two issues have arisen which I would like to draw reference to. The memorandum of explanation to members and, as has been identified in Question Time previously, it has always been the intention in the last two years that in the interest of road safety at the bottom of Richmond Hill, particularly arising from the road safety implications of the proposed siting of the energy-from-waste plant off the A6 near the bottom of Richmond Hill, it is intended that the A6 will ultimately be closed to through traffic - that is, from its junction at the bottom of Richmond Hill with the A5 Castletown Road to its junction with the widened Road Island road at Kewaigue Hill. It will, however, always provide access from Kewaigue to the energy-from-waste plant site and remain available as a through route for non- vehicle traffic. I am aware that this has caused considerable concern and, in the time since the last time this was debated in the House, I have attempted to confirm the department’s policy; I have been to the Council of Ministers with the proposals; we have had a meeting with Braddan Commissioners, Douglas Corporation and the Richmond Hill steering group; and we have communicated the contentions about this proposed closure to all the southern authorities. Furthermore, in a presentation to members on the Road Island scheme we did identify the reasons for this proposal. However, I am conscious that there is still considerable resistance in some quarters to this closure. It is our intention, as it always has been, to concentrate on safety and we believe, although not a direct route, this will make a speedier direct access into the lower Douglas area. However, in an effort to be clear with our intentions, in the explanatory memorandum item 3 it does refer to this as a proposed closure of that junction. I state here publicly, Mr President, that before any closure of that junction I will ensure that I will come back to this Court in order to discuss the reasons on safety grounds, which my department believe will be compelling. There have been briefings where members have listened, and they are looking at the situation at the moment rather than the enhancement which this scheme will actually create at the Spring Valley roundabout junction. Obviously, through the intentions of the department to be working on a scheme which will last 61 weeks, throughout that time traffic will have to be diverted down this route as it will be the only means to the south of the Island. We will then have an enhanced scheme which we believe will satisfy the public’s desire to move speedily into Douglas and avoid much of the congestion at Quarterbridge. However, I give a commitment that anybody supporting the motion today reserves the opportunity of expressing their votes on the closure, proposed by my department in a scheme which we believe merits it. The second item is the issue regarding Kewaigue School. The recent press coverage has been unfortunate and at times inaccurate. However, I do express my apologies that there has been a lack of consultation with the school involved, and that is now being remedied. The concerns of the parents having to park on the road outside the school has been for some years a difficulty with the head teacher, the department and, with limited traffic travelling down that route, it was not a major concern of the Highways because we knew an enhancement was coming. However, it has always been our intention to increase the volume of traffic moving in this direction after the scheme was introduced. We have already introduced 20-mile an hour flashing lights which come on around the school opening and closing times and we encourage all drivers to make full use of this for the safety of children. The scheme has pedestrian access, which has been a long-requested expectation of people living throughout that area, and this scheme will achieve it. The main issue under contention at the moment is the expansion of the car park proposed by the head teacher and the Department of Education, and this is an area where the department is already on record as having supported this principle. However, it is one which now needs further dialogue between myself and the Minister for Education. It also involves the Douglas Corporation and I believe that the absence of consultation to this stage with the school can be best remedied by taking it at a ministerial level between myself, the Minister for Education and, hopefully, working with Douglas Corporation, we will be able to find some accommodation to the expectations and needs.
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