Trinity Parishioners Still 'Divided' Over Road Improvements

Tuesday, 24 October 2023 11:39

Work to reduce speed limits around Trinity Village and install a new crossing outside the Trinity Arms will go ahead, despite parishioners still being 'divided' over the issue.

The Infrastructure Minister, Deputy Tom Binet was forced to scrap a scheme which would have introduced one-way systems around the parish, after backlash from residents.

"We opened the Parish Hall for an afternoon one Saturday and everyone that was angry came up and expressed their anger and we cancelled the main project, you can't listen to people any more than that.

We had another meeting in the parish recently with around 100 people and there were more opinions than there were people in the room.

That complicates matters when you've got the whole of the parish completely divided about what they want."

Now, a number of roads will have their speed limits lowered and a new pedestrian crossing will be installed on Rue es Picots.

Ministers and civil servants engaged in 'extensive' consultation following backlash from the oneway systems, but parishioners still aren't able to agree on what crossing is best.

Infrastructure Minister, Deputy Tom Binet says work needs to start regardless:

"Unless something really crops up that's a game changer then we need to proceed, we have people that are ready to do this job.

There is only a limit to how much you can respond and on this occasion there is no common view on what is required other than most people would like to see a crossing"

Work is due to start at the end of October.