Sir,-Dogma matters more than life under Labour!
Since January 7th 2001, I have been battling to have road safety measures installed at the Jolly Waggoner's Roundabout, Cranford.
The size of vehicles is enormous, the speeds too fast and the volume immense.
By Transport for London's own admission it is ''the busiest at-grade four-arm roundabout in the country'' (letter December 21st, 2001, from Nick Atkinson, Area Manager, North and West, Transport for London).
Mrs Sandford (82) collected a petition of over 1,000 signatures demanding traffic lights in June 2001: she duly gave it to our Conservative Greater London Assemblyman, Councillor Tony Arbour last June.
He in turn passed it on to Transport for London in July 2001 for urgent action.
Studies will be carried out this year but there is no date for or commitment to remedial measures.
A few recently-painted road markings will have to suffice but they are obviously inadequate as on June 20th a huge lorry crashed into the railings at the Jolly Waggoner's Roundabout.
I have therefore written to TfL demanding solutions now.
Why is it that the tax-payers' money can be spent in London gerrymandering with the timing of traffic lights in order to create more jams in a political attempt to persuade the beleaguered motorist and businessman that congestion charging is a ''good thing'', whereas there are insufficient resources to solve real life-threatening dangers on our roads?-Liz Mammat, Memorial Close, Heston.
July 9, 2002 11:30
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