WILLIAM Moore (Letters, August 11) is so right to condemn the so-called 'traffic-calming' scheme in Harwood Road and other parts of Rishton.

I'm sure that if the number of bumps and minor accidents were reported and monitored, the powers-that-be would realise what an expensive failure this scheme is.

Fair enough, the low speed means that in these cases the cost, although financial, does not usually involved injury to people. But if we could all drive carefully and see what was ahead, behind and to either side, these accidents would not happen at all.

I have seen school children darting in and out of moving traffic and lorries being forced to use cycle lanes to avoid accidents.

Just as we think we've come to the end of it all, more and more lumps of pavement are thrust into the middle of our highways.

With the continual increase in traffic over the years, roads have usually been widened accordingly to prevent congestion. So whose brainwave was it to make roads less able to carry traffic?

The next step will be to return them to dirt-tracks and force us all to revert to the horse and cart or stagecoach!

E HAWORTH (Mrs), Somerset Road, Rishton.

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