Recipe for a half-baked scheme
Here's a very good recipe for serving up "Half-baked A442 Stew". Take thousands of litres of white paint and hundreds of road signs, add together with lots of workers and apply to a length of highway, causing traffic delays for weeks. Then await the results.
And the results are? Nil, nothing, zero. Yes folks you've just read the latest recipe from the Telford councillors to waste money.
Ain't they good at at it? It must be all the practice they get. If you haven't guessed by now, I'm talking about the latest improvements to the Queensway A442 road.
After decorating the road with pretty white lines and putting up loads of speed limits signs the net result of all the effort is zero.
Many car drivers are constantly ignoring the 60mph limit, in fact they seem to think this is a minimum limit not a maximum one.
I travel this road several times a day and I can guarantee that if I'm doing 60mph I will have some moron two feet from my rear bumper.
The council forgot one thing in their planning - we no longer have a police force that can be bothered with motoring offences.
Here's another recipe. Take several speed cameras, mix them with police cars, sprinkle them with unmarked cars and place on the Queensway to marinade. I call this recipe "Just Desserts".
Though this recipe is sweet for most drivers some, such as BMW drivers, will find it leaves a very bitter taste and can also cause a severe pain in the pocket.
J Mapp, Telford
