They're putting more pressure on other roads

Despite complaints about them from many correspondents all over Bolton, they are still being installed on "through" roads, not estates, ie Settle Street and Stocks Park Drive. These will just put extra traffic on other roads, as will the proposed ones on Markland Hill, Church Road, Adrian Road, Bennets Lane, Cloister Street and many others.

Incidentally, how does Diane Jackson (Bolton Evening News, January 31) know that cars and lorries are doing 40mph-plus in Cloister Street? I say that is totally impossible. I walk and drive there regularly, and I know what it is like. The biggest problem is finding somewhere to pull in to let a car come the other way, but we manage. And as for children being knocked down, I still don't believe it, but if it is true, what are the parents doing about educating their children and then making sure they are safe?

With other problems around, like no disabled access at Blackrod Station (is this not breaking the law?), the chaos on our local rail services, new traffic lights in St George's Road causing accidents, the removal of the 502 bus with no prior notice (can they legally do that to one of our oldest routes?), the badly planned Glengarth Drive whose residents are now up in arms about the re-opening of the bridge at Lostock Station (which was there years before the houses, and whose owners didn't have to go and live there!), I suggest that the Council have enough to sort out without dumping tarmac all over our roads. If they have so much to spare, I could find several places to put it to improve our lives a little.

Unfortunately, I can foresee a natural progression in this speed hump campaign if all the current plans take place, and the thoughts of this are quite horrendous and will do the town no good at all. Perhaps some sort of "public discussion" might be a good idea, but I don't suppose our councillors would agree, despite the fact that they were elected by us to run Bolton for us!

R Taylor

Church Road

Bolton