29/10/2008 URGENT ATTENTION..... Local Access Roads / Rail Crossings 

Do you live, work, socialise, are being educated, shop or travel around the Runnymede and Spelthorne area?
This includes car, bike, van, bus, lorry and cycle users, as well as those who walk!
Then the affects of Airtrack will be detrimental to you. (If you have not yet seen the information please see below)

PLEASE GET YOUR VOICE AND VIEWS HEARD BY DOING ALL OF THE FOLLOWING -

1. Attend a consultation meeting -
Saturday 25th October 2008, 10am to 4pm, Staines Community Centre
Thursday 6th November 2008, 12 noon to 8pm, St Giles Hotel, Feltham
Saturday 8th November 2008, 10am to 4pm, Staines Community Centre

2. Post your comments on the wall on our Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1023971930&ref=profile

3. Phone for a consultation brochure - 020 7529 4910

4. Sign up at our petition on the 10 Downing Street website -
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/EghamCrossings/

5. Contact any/all of the following:
a) MP Philip Hammond - http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/philip_hammond/runnymede_and_weybridge
b) Surrey County Council highways department -
sustainable.travel@dft.gov.uk - This is the Sustainable travel section, but please feel free to contact anyone in at the highways department- http://www.dft.gov.uk
c) The Highways Agency - ha_info@highways.gsi.gov.uk (website: http://www.highways.gov.uk/default.aspx)
d) The Government Office for the South East - transport.gose@go-regions.gsi.gov.uk (website: http://www.gose.gov.uk/gose/transport/?a=42496)
e) Spelthorne Borough Council - strategic.director.community@spelthorne.gov.uk
f) Runnymede Borough Council - administration@runnymede.gov.uk

6 . Print off and put up the attached poster wherever you have permission to do so.

7 . Let everyone you know about this.

Thank you for your support.

Kind regards from Anna Barry
Administrator, Egham Chamber of Commerce
Phone: 01784 460108
Email: admin@eghamchamber.org.uk
Website: www.eghamchamber.org.uk
Address: c/o Strode’s College, Egham, TW20 9DR

WE NEED YOUR HELP.
Airtrack have begun the next phase of their “consultation process” on the new rail link from Heathrow westwards. They’ve been sending brochures to residents and business in Staines, and inviting them to public exhibitions in Staines, Stanwell and Feltham.
BUT They have apparently no plans to consult with businesses, residents or other stakeholders in Egham. This despite the fact the biggest impacts of the project will be on Egham’s roads, since 3 of the 4 worst affected level crossings on the route are in Egham. They admit this in the consultation brochure (page10) but on the same page they write that they “have concluded that it is not feasible or justifiable” to build bridges or tunnels at these crossing.
We have been told that if Airtrack proceeds the level crossing at Egham Station will be down for 44 minutes per hour, at Pooley Green for 39 minutes per hour and at Thorpe Road for 37 minutes per hour. This won’t just affect Egham: the impact on the surrounding roads, with drivers finding alternative routes, will affect the whole of the area. Are you prepared to put up with this?

PASS THIS ON to all your contacts please: We need as much support as possible if we are to get our bridge.