Roads around JCoSS cannot take more cars (From Times Series)

Roads around JCoSS cannot take more cars

10:49am Friday 12th March 2010 in

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Your front-page article ‘Full house’ should have been called ‘Full roads’ (Barnet & Potters Bar Times, March 4). At the recent Safer Neighbourhood Team Community Action Panel meeting, it was announced the Jewish Community Secondary School felt its travel plan was undeliverable.

In plain English, it didn’t feel using buses or coaches to get pupils to school was achievable, and parents would have to drive their children to school if they were not using public transport. It should be noted that this school has a 17-mile catchment area.

How more plainly can we put it? The local roads — Victoria Road, Park Road, Baring Road, Fordham Road, Grove Road, Linthorpe Road and Castleford Road — cannot take this volume of traffic. When will councillors and planning officers listen?

With the number of parents driving their children in, it will inevitably lead to parking zones and additional yellow lines in some, if not all, of these roads.

It is not like East Barnet School where pupils tend to live locally and use public transport.

I suggest readers write to their councillor and let them know this is not acceptable. The school should be made to keep to the travel plan, or the numbers at the school should be restricted to one-year intake until the matter is resolved.

R Swales, Fordham Road, Barnet