Experts should know we don’t want lanes

9:13am Monday 5th May 2008

SIR - Regarding double red lines (Worcester News, April 17), I had hoped our city council's highways experts would by now have received and understood the message from the citizens of Worcester that we do not want their crackpot expensive bus lanes along Newtown Road.

They have been given reasons why and several alternative methods, by people who obviously know the area far better than they, which will improve the flow of traffic at an iota of the millions of taxpayers' money they intend to spend.

Congestion along Newtown Road is minimal - it only occurs briefly during the peak periods and even less during school holidays, which makes their proposal rather like using a road roller to crush a fly.

I wonder - are you the expert planners who planned the single carriageway on the southern by- pass/Carrington bridge, the two failed costly attempts to make a one- way traffic system along Lowesmoor, and who have narrowed the city centre streets so that now a single minor accident or breakdown gridlocks the city in a matter of minutes? Listen to the people city planners and think again before you waste even more of our money. But I doubt that you will.

TONY EAVES, Worcester & District UK Independence Party.

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