Can someone from the council please tell us why Seasiders Way is still closed from
Bloomfield Road going south and has been for some months now, it seems?
I attempted to drive from town to Waterloo Road at 1.30pm on Saturday, down Central Drive as far as Rigby Road and it was
gridlocked.
So I thought I would try Seasiders Way as a short cut.
That was a big mistake.
Not being a sports fan I didn't know there was a football match on, which only served to compound the problem.
As I joined the traffic coming from town going south, the only way for all this traffic was to turn left onto Bloomfield Road (joining the queue of traffic from Lytham Road) and back onto Central Drive.
The problem is the traffic lights at
Bloomfield Road and Central Drive only let a handful of cars through. So as you can
imagine, it took me nearly half an hour to drive from Rigby Road to Bloomfield Road.
Even a policeman on the old fashioned point duty would have cleared the traffic chaos in no time.
Why is that section of the main route out of Blackpool still closed after all this time?
It should have been sorted before the
season started properly.
What a disgrace this is. Add to it the often
mentioned closure of Lytham Road too, someone's head should roll for this state of affairs in our town.
It's bad enough living here.
If I was a visitor I certainly wouldn't be
returning.
Madeliene Cason
Auburn Grove
Blackpool


Councils complain but waste travel cash
Regarding the reports in which Blackpool Wyre and Fylde councils are complaining about the cost of pensioners' free travel on buses (The Gazette, August 6).
There is no way that they can
actually state how much it is going to cost as it has only just come into force recently.
Is it not the pensioners right to get something free from this
country?
Was it not them who got this country back on its feet after the war, working in unhealthy and
dangerous conditions, without all the health and safety regulations they have today, to give the people the quality of life and riches that people today enjoy, and would never have had if it had not have been for most of the elderly of this country?
Blackpool Wyre and Fylde
councillors did not whinge and moan when they gave themselves a high wage increase, and spent thousands of pounds doing up their town halls, and driving round at a cost to the tax payer, in taxis.
That is not to mention wasting money on steel benches and
concrete flower beds, then
removing them all, making Birley Street look like a bomb site.
They also keep paying out for all these artists impressions of
futuristic ideas, yet nothing ever comes of them.
It is about time councillors stopped complaining and wasting
public money and started doing the job they are being paid to do, instead of trying to find another way to increase council tax.
C and J Bradley
Annan Crescent, Marton

Fair fares
I AGREE with Coun Fred
Jackson on the idea of half price fares for pensioners.
Having lived in Cleveleys for more than 30 years and now in Knott End it would appear that a lot of pensioners would not mind paying half fare if it meant the council tax would not rise.
We all know that you can't have something for nothing. In the end someone has to pay and its usually the poor pensioner.
EDDIE BEWES
Derwent Close, Knott End


Risk to more amenities
Coun Trevor Fiddler says: "Money should be given to the council and it is up to the council what is done with it."
That presumably is because Fylde Council is capable of such tasks, not the public who as
always must be excluded from
decisions that affect them.
However, maybe the council will be more careful with private revenue, the £33,000 raised by giving the go ahead for
Kensington Developments to build 40 flats, than they are with tax payers money.
Their heroic incompetence and overspending of our cash has created an over £1m hole in their finances.
Does this mean a lot more green lights to Kensington and other developers in order to
ameliorate the cash crisis? Does it mean the end of more public amenities?
Has this process already begun under the guise of a £30m sea front master plan and new hotel?
Most incredulous of all the same leader and seven members who made up the committee that with the utmost confidence
landed themselves in this
financial disaster are still
running the show.
Sadly this will continue to be the case until the public, who are being continually pushed,
decide otherwise when they go to the polls.
G Quayle
Ansdell
Let vandals at Riverdance
When are they going to get rid of the hunk of junk on Cleveleys beach, as the salvage team do not seem to be doing much?
I notice there are plenty of
vandals with nothing to do and would suggest putting them to work dismantling this boat.
They would finish the job in a couple of months for nothing.
N Thorne
Address supplied
Rate shock on holiday
My wife and I were recently on holiday in Lake Garda and Venice.
On arrival at Venice Railway
Station I changed £70 into Euros at the Maccorp Italiana on the
station concourse.
The posted rate was £1 to 1.21 euros.
That was a bit on the low side, yet OK for a bureau de change.
But I was shocked to receive only 63.95 Euros because the
company takes two service charges totalling 20.71 Euros.
Paddy Rowan
Bispham