Letter to the Editor: Inclusive solution needed for Cliff Path

Inclusive solution needed for Cliff Path

The Cliff Path Action Group Team

Walking next to the busiest road in town is no alternative to walking next to the sea. The unique layout of our town funnels all vehicular and pedestrian traffic within millimetres from one another along Main Road between Sea Road and Mollergren Park.

It doesn’t make sense not to allow pedestrians to walk next to the sea, especially when there is no other alternative, no other quiet road, for them to use but the narrow sidewalk of Main Road.

Four years ago, the Cliff Path Action Group (CPAG) started a community driven and funded process to address this issue. With hindsight, very naively we thought continuing the cliff path along Poole’s Bay would be a wonderful contribution to our town and resolve the matter once and for all.

We approached the issue by encouraging people to walk along an informal footpath along the coastline of Poole’s Bay and engaging in a formal Environmental Impact Assessment to analyse the viability of continuing the cliff path along Poole’s Bay.

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