River Ward Councillor John Jones and Adetomi Yemi are challenging the current Medway Council Conservative administration on the total failure to manage road improvements in Rochester, Chatham & Strood.
Over the last four years, Medway residents have experienced unprecedented and infuriating delays to their journeys and small business has suffered through lost trade, delays to goods delivery anda reduction in foot fall.
Any one driving through Medway can not have failed to have been impacted by a lack of co-ordination on roads.
We are interested in hearing of your experiences of roadwork chaos in Medway and highlighting your suggestions for improvements in future.
The road changes have been so badly mismanaged that trade in Chatham has decreased by up to 20% and many residents are simply put off from travelling into our town centres because of the delays.
We have had numerous incidences of traffic light failures and indeed Council staff being used to re-direct traffic.
In Rochester, during the Christmas Market, residents and tourists were not served well after many were stuck in unacceptable traffic jams during a key trading period.
It highlights how small business in Medway is ill-served by an administration which is out of touch with the mainstream majority.
There is no point regenerating an area if you alienate the same public you seek to serve and it is clear the Conservatives locally have lost touch with the public.
We will continue to raise serious questions on the £2.5m Chatham two-way system which Labour opposed. We will continue to challenge the nature of works in Rochester which though a key junction in Corporation Street, appears not to be a priority for the Conservatives. We will continue to scrutinise and challenge the Conservative lax regime which does not challenge major gas and water works.
Residents are also angry that whilst millions are spent on major road programmes that residential streets have been left mired with potholes which are leading to damage to vehicles. We will seek to refocus the attention onto your street.
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