Regarding plans to build a park & ride and single track bus lane at Thames Valley Park by the River Thames:
Our borough’s green spaces are treasured and precious.
Dinton Pastures and California Country Park are important assets – even with the crippling parking charges – for us.
But there are other green spaces that really do matter. The riverside area by Thames Valley Park is one of them.
The plan concocted by Wokingham and Reading Borough Councils is an enormous – and expensive – folly.
The precious green space is to be wiped out the sake of a 277-space car park for commuters, while the famous – and listed – horseshoe bridge and railway bridge built by Brunel will be dwarfed by an ugly concrete monstrosity that will serve buses from a single lane.
It is a ridiculous plan that will destroy forever an important green space.
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It is equally ridiculous when there is scope for increasing in size the Winnersh Park & Ride, and looking at increasing public transport options from there instead.
Like the Thames Valley Park park and ride scheme, it will serve the A329m and help commuters get into Wokingham or Reading. But unlike the Thames Valley Park plan it has more space and serves a railway station.
The Thames Valley Park scheme is simply vandalism on a massive scale. It must be rejected.
