Keep Traffic Out of Town

Tim O'Flynn watches the regular Datchet Rush Hour Traffic Jam, as cars head into Windsor's Town Centre over the Level Crossings. The M4 Park & Ride would draw this traffic out of Datchet back on to the M4.

The "Keep Traffic Out of Town" campaign is the campaign for the construction of an M4 Park & Ride Scheme. The campaign calls for the construction of a Park & Ride to intercept traffic coming into Windsor from the M4. Currently 53% of traffic entering Windsor enters the town along the M4 Spur Road.

In November 2007, just six months after being elected, the new Conservative administration of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead cancelled planning for the M4 Park & Ride. Sadly they had not been honest enough to put this policy in their election manifesto in May 2007.

Liberal Democrat councillors opposed the specific plan brought to the council cabinet by the Conservatives, but remain committed to the principle of getting traffic out of Windsor, Eton and Datchet's narrow streets by building an M4 Park & Ride.

Why the Conservatives brought a plan to council that they themselves did not support is also a mystery. In doing so they upset residents as they both simultaneous developed the plan and campaigned against it.

• Click here to see a list of Conservative Councillors who oppose the M4 Park & Ride.

• Click here to find out about the Lib Dems' M4 Park & Ride Survey.

• Click here to read the Conservative's Cabinet Report on the Eton Southfield Park & Ride from 2007 as a Microsoft Word document @ rbwm.gov.uk.

• Click here to read the Conservative's Cabinet Report on the Eton Southfield Park & Ride from 2007 as a PDF document @ windsorlibdems.org.uk.

• Click here to see the plan from Conservative's Cabinet Report on the Eton Southfield Park & Ride from 2007 as a PDF document @ rbwm.gov.uk.

• Click here to read the minutes of the Conservative Cabinet from November 2007 as a Microsoft Word Document @ rbwm.gov.uk.

• Click here to read the minutes of the Conservative Cabinet from November 2007 as a PDF document @ windsorlibdems.org.uk.