HOW much longer will motorists take lying down the lousy treatment we have received for decades from successive governments?

Every Chancellor at every budget digs his greedy hands ever deeper into our pockets.

The present incumbent has allowed roads to deteriorate and become jammed, and has virtually frozen plans for new highways and by-passes to relieve congestion, even though official statistics have shown a decline in pollution despite rising vehicle numbers.

We pay through the nose in taxes and deserve better than to be robbed blind and periodically threatened with motorway tolls and supermarket car park fees.

Other figures indicate that the "integrated transport policy" is farcical, with privatised rail companies making megabucks from the provision of pathetic services.

Furthermore, most people find that buses do not run where they want to go, but keep stopping everywhere else.

It appears that the police will soon be assuming that everyone driving a car must be drunk. Perhaps with good reason.

KEITH ELLEL, Westwood Avenue, Rishton.

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