Newark Advertiser reader letters: Complaints are nothing new

In his letter, Keith Harrison is probably right — we will always have congestion in Newark.

I was amused by his jocular letter in which, to ease the problem at the Castle Station crossing, he suggested re-routing the Midland Railway via Northgate station.

Seriously though, we should remember that cars aren’t more important than anything else and that the railway was there first.

We’ve always complained about the Castle Station crossing.

I can’t be the only one who remembers when, before the bypasses, the A46 and the A1 came through the town — both together along Castlegate — and the A1 traffic had to wait for the man to come down out of the signal box to open and close the gates.

Will someone suggest that we build a new station where the two railway lines cross, next to the sewage works? Perhaps not.

On his aversion to bikes; surely, to reduce the traffic, we should be encouraging cycling.

It’s the easiest way to get around town. — E. Coleman, Newark.