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(188.223.152.181) | i don't know a lot about the route in kirkmuirhill have there been lots of accidents with patersons lorries is that why they want to move |
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(80.194.102.132) | 
100% agree. We should be campaigning TOGETHER against these obscene planning proposals. Can't these people see sense & look at the bigger picture? Are they looking forward to dodging quarry lorries as they try to exit the Tesco carpark? |
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(86.148.30.154) | As a resident of Kirkmuirhill, I agree with the letter sent to all residents. For 10 -15 years Boghead, Kirkmuirhill and Blackwood have had the lorries passing through our village. The villages have campaigned vigourouly to have the route changed. The Council, Pattersons and the residents have pursued, explored and debated changes of route, from a separate on ramp for the M74, by pass of the villages by buying land from farmers to take the quarry traffic direct to Tanhill and on the A74. NONE of the alternatives came to fruition.
So, after all these years why should we give up on the alternative taking the lorries through a VERY small part of Lesmahagow.
I will support Lesmahagow to find an alternative, but I am not prepared to have the traffic continue past THREE primary schools for another decade.
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(86.148.30.154) | I too reside in Kirkmuirhill and find this dividing of communities a nonsense. We in Kirkmuirhill are voting to have to lorries take a different route, AS WE HAVE BEEN FOR OVER 10 YEARS. We have gone through all the options, an on ramp to the Motorway, a route to take the traffic out at Tanhill to avoid all three villages of Boghead, Kirkmuirhil, and several other options. ALL the options were explored and rejected by the Council, the authority for the motorway, Pattersons and the communities. Given that we three villages have campaigned vigourously all these years to have the traffic re-routed, WHY should we reject the only positive solution now. Lesmahagow can still campaign for an alternative route and we will support you, but not at the cost of having the traffic continue to go through Boghead, Kirkmuirhill and Blackwood, past THREE primary schools. |
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(78.151.48.96) | Hi Alan I am glad someone in Kirkmuirhill is talking sense. Don't go from memory, click the top left (big Red) button, "Latest Dunduff Quarry Traffic news" , then some new dark blue buttons will appear on the left, click 2nd one down, "Blackwood and Kirkmuirhill view". The letter is there to read. There is no mention of incinerator, which at this point should be a MORE URGENT matter for the community. Back to Quarry Traffic. The councillors or MSP's cannot support one side of the community, ie. Lesmahagow or Kirkmuirhill in a squabble who has or who has not to get traffic, so it will come down to best reason for objection to proposal. (ie the route with best suited road and least impact on people).
The BEST option would have been for ALL communities to support a NEW route which avoids ALL the communities, and then the councillors AND MSPs can support this action. SO Kirkmuirhill and Blackwood NEED to wake up smell the coffee or THEY may get stuck with this traffic for another THIRTY YEARS! |
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(194.9.188.21) | I live in KHill and also got this flyer. From memory this letter was pointing out if we tick a certain option, then we are accepting that if the lorries dont get diverted then we are happy for them to continue to travel their current route. And happy at incinerator lorries coming though the village,.
Unfortunatley as civilisation, people will look after themselves as No1.
We should as 2 community groups be fighting against the routes as a whole, and not against one another.
Also people got to remember there is a proposed incinerator to counter act the lorries being shifted to the Gow, The letetr has to be taken in context as well.
The people our gripe is with is the COUNCIL. |
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(86.155.110.120) | I have just read the letter produced by the kirkmuirhill group and find it completely unacceptable that they would be as reckless to produce a letter to actively campaign to have the lorries put past another community. it appears we have been wasting our time trying to have the traffic diverted away from everyone. they have circulated this letter instructing everyone to write to the msp basically telling her to support the trucks past our houses and not to consider any alternative route.
so much for local communities trying to get along. someone who reads the letter would assume that this is the voice and general opinion of kirkmuirhill and blackwood.
alan is quite right in mentioning that the writer is in rogerhill gait as a google search can provide the address of this group that produced the letter, a location which is well off the current route that the trucks pass. how is he any different from all of us.
oh he is, he currently has the trucks and we don't.
it appears then that a new option has to be added to our fight against the trucks and that is for them to stay where they are as it appears they are as the letter states to support the route through lesmahagow.
unbelievable.
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blackwood and kirkmuirhill letter
