I DON'T know where Blackburn Chamber of Trade president Ron O'Keeffe jnr had been to when he made the comments (LET, December 18) which basically said that on the introduction of the town's new traffic system, no council representatives were present.

I suggest that he looks at the picture in your paper the following Friday in which he will clearly see two men in yellow coats directing traffic.

I am reliably informed that these men were from the council and that they and a number of others were in place when Mr O'Keeffe spent his hour observing the change-over.

PAULINE VAUGHAN, Higher Church Street, Blackburn.