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YELLOW LINES Do we need them ? If so why ? If not why not ? We feel sure that most residents will now know of the impeding doom of the yellow perils coming to a street near you. A recent communication from Kent Highways stating that double yellows will go down in Monkton Road (north side New Inn to Ben’s layby), Taylor Road, all corners and both sides for it’s length in single yellows, plus the corners of St Marys Road, Molineux Road at it’s junctions with St Marys Road and Domneva Road, Thorne Road at it’s junctions with Domneva Road and Taylor Road. Supposedly the Bus and Emergency Services have asked for these as an urgent priority under traffic safety grounds. We can understand the Emergency Services requiring urgent access, but it would seem to us that the Bus Service to Minster School ought to terminate at Monkton Road and a new walking bus be started to meet this service and walk the children to school from there, and vice versa at home time. This would save any hassles of trying to get a bus around the estate. Mothers could also help alleviate the gridlock and mayhem by not parking on the corners around the estate or better still by dropping their youngsters at one of the stops for the already recognised walking buses that service the school. If we have to have yellow lines then why not just single yellows with parking restrictions applicable between say 8.15 and 9.15am and again between 3pm to 4pm on weekdays only,
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because these are the times when the most problems exist. That’s just 2 hours per day, 5 days per week. As an observation, when there was no footpath on the northern side of Perhaps we can get some of Monkton Road these and just put them between Ben’s and the down at school times !!!! New Inn, nobody parked there, since the footpath was installed thus narrowing the road, everybody wants to park there making that section of Monkton Road single width, so maybe we’ve been the instigators of this move to install yellow lines by our own selfishness. There are copies of a petition for you to sign in the Butchers, Greengrocers, Ben’s and the Gossip Shop if you wish to object to the scheme.
NEW SCOUT TROOP Minster Scout Troop is restarting on 11th September. They will be based at the Old Schools and meet on Fridays from 7.00pm to 9.00pm Both boys and girls are welcomed but must be aged between 10½ and 14yrs Can you help? The troop are actively seeking some dry storage for their smaller equipment which would be kept in air tight boxes. A garage or shed would be ideal. The larger items such as tents etc are already stored away from the village on a local farm, so this requirement is just for the items they would require on a weekly basis, as there are no storage facilities at the Old Schools. For further info tel: 01843 581014 www.minsterscouts.org.uk
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