After Shirley and City Centre Chaos, ANOTHER Crazy Labour Council Road Scheme To Go Ahead - at Portswood Broadway

 

ANOTHER Crazy Highway Scheme By Labour

After the chaos caused by Labour's 20mph signs on Hill Lane and Shirley Road, and months of disruption in the City Centre for no benefit to residents, Labour's cycling fanatic Councillor Eamonn Keogh is pushing ahead with another crazy road scheme as Labour's Cabinet Member for Transport.

This time it's the hated Portswood Broadway scheme, going ahead for "a trial" in 2025.

And just like in Shirley, Keogh is going ahead with it against common sense and despite huge resistance and objections from local residents. More sham consultations mean residents are ignored.

Southampton Independents' Andrew Pope spent his own time as a concerned volunteer to properly listen to Portswood and Highfield residents, and told the Daily Echo what he had found - that the vast majority of residents were against this scheme. He also contacted local residents' associations and encouraged petitions against the proposals to be signed, and encouraged residents to stand for Council.

Via hundreds of leaflets and letters and doorstep conversations with residents and businesses, Andrew found that there was huge dissatisfaction with Keogh's chaotic plans. Andrew says:

Andrew Pope, speaking when a councillor
to BBC South Today

"After my campaign to expose Labour's mistakes on the Broadway scheme, Labour lost one of their Portswood Council seats to the Greens. It seems Labour want to lose more seats in this area, because they are not listening to local residents.

Labour's Transport Councillor Eamonn Keogh seems hell-bent on ruining any productivity on our roads, and his cycling fanaticism is ruining the journeys of the 89% of people who use the car or walk in our City. Cycling and buses should be encouraged but both are a tiny percentage of journeys in our City.

Cllr Keogh shouldn't be experimenting again in our City, as his previous experiments in Shirley on Hill Lane and Shirley Road, and in the City Centre, have both failed, and wasted a huge amount of public money - when the Council is broke. It was obvious that the experiments would not work, but the Labour Council went ahead anyway.

It's time the Leader of the Council Councillor Lorna Fielker removed him from his Transport role, for the sake of our City, the Council's finances, and City businesses and residents."