GOOD on John Elliot, Alan Jones and others who have been bold enough to speak out against this ill-thought-out 20mph scheme.

I have communicated with my green councillors on numerous occasions with sensible suggestions that might make many of these proposals more palatable to the motoring public but they just keep repeating the same old examples about other areas.

Amongst other things, I have asked for the following:

  • Information as to where accidents have occurred over the past 12 months. This would enable the council to show that the number fell under the scheme.
  • For the removal from the scheme of main roads that link one part of the borough to another.
  • For restrictions to be placed on the proposed limits. For example, 20mph may make sense during peak hours but not at weekends. It makes no sense to travel at that speed along Holm Lane or Shrewsbury Road on a Sunday morning and there is only a need (on some roads) to travel at 20mph when schools are open. That could be accomplished by flashing lights.

It is senseless that these lower limits should be applied on a large number of these roads, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year. I have begged the council to make concessions but they seem intransigent.

While engineers are building planes, trains and ships to shave minutes off the time it takes to travel, Wirral Council seems determined to take us back to the days of the horse and cart. If they’d had their say, the wheel would probably have never been invented.

Sadly, our councillors have decided to treat drivers like little children who must be told what to do. They do not credit us with any intelligence and the nanny state expects us to blindly obey whatever they choose to inflict on us. In many cases, it is a real chore to drive at that speed.

A new slogan for the council could be 'Wirral Borough Council - Making the Wirral a Miserable Place to Live.' 

The threat of a £100 fine will, quite possibly, cause more people to shop online rather than take the risk of shopping locally and every £100 fine imposed will mean £100 less to spend in local stores. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

The people we voted for seem to have forgotten that they are here to serve the residents of Wirral, not to dictate policies.

If the Conservatives promise to remove these on all main roads and thoroughfares, the red (and green) wall could fall at the next local elections.

Mick Whitley does seem sympathetic towards the views of Wirral residents but, as my green councillor pointed out, he would not be likely to go against the dictates of the local Labour group.

Ken Harrow, Prenton