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The Group was originally set up to fight the Orange Route on behalf of Offord residents and to try and get the route changed back to the original CHUMMS proposal which was North of Offord Hill. Two and a half years later with a successful legal challenge under our belt we still face the same threat to our community and our environment. There is still a long way to go before the road is built and we must now choose how we take the fight forward.
 
The world has changed in those two and a half years and the Government  faces targets to reduce carbon emissions as well as a draft Climate Change Bill. The increased freight traffic on the A14 is a threat to all the communities along the route, both in terms of pollution as well as noise and visual intrusion. We do not want this monstrosity on our doorsteps!
 
If fighting for the communities we live in and care about makes us NIMBYS then so be it, however, we are more than NIMBYS in that we care about protecting what is left of our countryside and about the health and well being of our children and our children's children who have to live in the toxic environment created by the ever increasing A14 freight traffic.
 
If you care about your environment and what is about to happen to it then come along and have your say at our meeting on 4th December.
 
 

03.12.2007
OffordsA14 group waiting on £50k Govt refund......Read More

A14 Ellington to Fen Ditton . Read more

Route
 
Coming to a hill near you
Pictures new and old routes
 
Have your say in the new Offord's letters page...
e-mail me bellow

Tic Toc Show support to these websites
http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/
http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/local_campaigning/online_guides/roads
http://www.cpre.org.uk/library/results/roads
http://www.freightonrail.org.uk/

Email our wonderful MP and complain about the route choice,especially as he has released a Press Release in support http://www.jonathandjanogly.com 

 

23.11.2007

 OFFORD ACTION GROUP
Meeting to decide our next action, Your village Your action group. Read more
 
 

23.11.2007
A14 Plans at risk Read more

 HGV and road wear
Did you know
The road wear caused by a heavy goods vehicle with an axle load of 40 tonnes is 60000-100000 times as high as the road wear caused by a passenger car
 
Across Great Britain the majority (around 80 per cent by volume) of freight
shipped on behalf of downstream customers in IMCs by hauliers and
forwarding firms (IMC hauliers) is done by road.

 

 Road and rail freight
Road freight has gone up by 30%, Rail freight has gone down by 5%, In my opinion should be the other way round ? Improvements to rail would ease the congestion on our roads especially the A14?

Tic Toc HGV emissions
Without a significant change in freight policy, HGV emissions will not meet the targets in the draft Climate Change Bill

14,526 HGVs Involved in injury accidents
13,278 Injury accidents involving HGVs 576 Deaths in these accidents
2,692 Serious injuries
15,430 Slight injuries
Car users accounted for over half of casualties in HGV accidents. HGV occupants accounted for less than a fifth of those killed or injured.15% of killed and seriously injured casualties were pedestrians or cyclists. 119 of 535 fatalities were from this group, a fifth of all fatalities. 
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