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Rye Street is to be shut yet again later this month – so that the “wrong type of crossing” can be installed in the “wrong place”, according to campaigners. Highways authority Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) has installed temporary traffic lights and will close the B1004 road entirely for six days from Monday to Saturday, August 26-31. Contractors will install a new junction connecting to Newland Avenue, the spine road that runs through the Bishop’s Stortford North development area to Hadham Road. They will also be putting in a puffin crossing to St Michael’s Hurst, despite protests that the…