ROCHDALE has one called Mike Harding, now Blackburn has a 'Cowboy.' How anyone in their right mind could shut down Ainsworth Street and make two chicanes outside Yates Wine Lodge on the main A666 road and expect traffic to flow freely is beyond belief.

From two lanes in Mincing Lane and two lanes in King Street (four) going into one - a six-year-old child could tell you what would happen.

As for having a train and bus station together - we always have had, but how you get to it now from the south of Blackburn is beyond me. I presume you go up to Eanam roundabout and come back and turn left? Still you never know the train might be 30 minutes late! In my opinion Blackburn town centre is total rubbish. I have to go to work through it each morning and evening but no way will I go shopping or socialising because of the congestion.

I am writing this letter at Ewood, in a double lane which in a short while will go into a single lane on the main A666, a very busy road.

I have worked in Blackburn for 15 years and it is a nightmare now with traffic at strangulation point.

Bring back hanging so the Blackburn 'Cowboy' can be lynched.

Can I slap the horse?

TOM CROOK, Woodville Terrace, Darwen.

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