The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
There is a big dispute between car drivers and Network Rail over delays at crossings when people travel from the west side of the town.
The fault lies with the people that gave the green light to building new houses on former railway land on the south side of the town.
The former Spalding Avoiding line ran from Cuckoo Junction over Hawthorn Bank, the Peterborough line, the March line south of Havelock Street, over the Welland to a point near the A16 east relief road.
If this bank had been made wider, the bridges upgraded with spur roads and roundabouts into the town centre, the journey time from the far east to the far west of the town would be five minutes.
They made good use of the former Boston line with a new A16 route, but gave houses priority on the south side of Spalding and now car owners living in the new homes face gridlock near the town centre.
Trevor Smith
King’s Lynn
