DESPITE the present focus on main road Traffic chaos in Blackburn, let us not lose sight of the minor roads which have been targeted for alteration, adding still further to traffic problems.

Oakenhurst Road -- the location of the Montague Health Centre -- is to be hit now with narrowing lanes, cycle lanes, road islands, and many give way and right of way signs, which confuse some and others just ignore.

To complete this obstacle course, I would suggest a tank trap at one end of the restrictions and a moat at the other -- and that motorists drive on the pavement and pedestrians walk in the road.

On Bank Top, a road island outside St Luke and St Philip's Church stops the flow of traffic whenever there is a funeral cortge in place. Traffic wanting to pass is forced into the opposite lane and into oncoming traffic. This is made further hazardous by the junction of Stansfeld Street, with vehicles joining the main road at this point.

Should the road island be demolished, or the church?

On Spring Lane at Witton, because of a nearby one way traffic system, there is a constant tailback of traffic, which we never had before.

Join the queue at peak periods and see Blackburn's own designer-made traffic jam.

Fellow drivers, I believe we have had enough -- what with projecting pavements at junctions -- many unnecessary -- and mini roundabouts and speed ramps, a host of signs, crossings and cycle lanes for 'invisible cyclists' and many other frustrations. Have our planners lost it or is it all part of a devious plan to drive us all off the road?

Even after surviving all this, at our destination we become as vulnerable as a wildebeest which has left the herd, as we are pursued by yellow-eyed wardens, and also are at risk from ferocious wheel clampers who lurk in the shadows of those innocent looking derelict areas of land.

TOM ANSBRO, Feniscliffe Drive, Blackburn.