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Thanks Sheila so nothing is moving and from Roger's posting it is Status Quo
Howard - The situation with the emergency services, as you indicate, is unthinkable in an emergency. Stagecoach have said for a number of years that when the Mercedes 709 vehicles need replacing, and that day is rapidly approaching, the new easy access buses required by law very soon now that are slightly wider for wheelchair accessability, will not be able to use the current route - from memory, this is one reason why the never submitted survey was carried out about 4 or 5 years ago as Roger quite accurately recalls.
The survey should have been submitted straight away to both DDC, who housed the Highways Unit at that time, and KCC, as the public transport providers, but for reasons best known to those who carried out the survey this never happened, thus we are still at Status Quo.
That percentage is interesting Roger, Sheila gave me the impression that it was higher when we discussed it in te street about a year or so ago and she said she would forward it to me.
I don't yet have information as to whether the Kent Fire & Rescue Service had difficulty in getting to this incident but if they did, to a degree it may have been fortunate that they were not responding to a fire or there could have been some awful fatal consequences.
I once saw a house in a similarly narrow road in Maidstone near to where two friends lived. The property had been severely damaged by fire and there was a fixed double glazed window that the F&R Service, following difficulties getting to the incident due to parked vehilces, had been unable to smash through so the young girl whose bedroom window it was couldn't be rescued. It was spine-chilling looking at that window.
