Highway Chief’s Stourport Visit : Further Details

Jamie Shaw working hard for Stourport and Areley Kings.

When Highways portfolio holder, Cllr Derek Prodger, met Stourport councillors, (see last week’s blog), I asked him whether any of the seven improved-traffic-flow scenarios, drawn up in 2003, were likely to be implemented in the near future. These scenarios ranged in cost from £200,000 to £48m. (They are quite distinct from road surface repairs cash.) Unfortunately, despite the “gridlock” predicted by the county council’s own consultant engineers, if nothing is done in Stourport, Cllr Prodger could not definitely commit any money to resolve the town’s traffic problems. This promises to be a major local item in next year’s county council elections.