News on NWL Initial Views

With June in full swing, the closing date for our Norwich Western Link has just come into sight on the horizon. We've got five weeks behind us with a further three weeks ahead for people to have their say on transport issues to the west of the city. The consultation closes at midnight on Tuesday 3 July.

It's been a busy week since our last update. Following some publicity to mark the halfway mark of the consultation, we got a fresh batch of responses through which means our running total now stands at 861 exactly.

We also had our busiest consultation event to date in Taverham, where a whopping 181 of you came to see us (beating Weston Longville into second place with 133 visitors, for some context), and yesterday we were at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital for most of the day, talking to staff and visitors about the consultation - our thanks to the hospital for accommodating us.

And thanks to all of you who have come along or stopped to talk to us about the consultation, it's been really interesting to hear your thoughts and priorities and we hope it's been useful to you to get your questions answered.

Speaking of which, we have two more consultation events this week - both of them at The Forum in Norwich. We'll be in the main atrium of the building between 10.30am and 8pm tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday so if you're in the city, please come and see us. And please tell anyone you know who may be interested in the consultation and are likely to be in the city centre on these two days.

Finally, a reminder about why we're doing this in the first place. Before we get to the point of coming up with proposals, we think it's important to get the insights and experiences of those people who travel through the area regularly so that whatever we come up with has the best possible chance of tackling some of the transport problems you tell us about. And as and when we do come up with any options we'll carry out another consultation, so you'll have lots of opportunity to let us know what you think of these options.