I’m pleased the Government is to encourage local councils to cut back on unnecessary street furniture and signage.

Drive along the London Road from Leigh to Southend and it is obvious that over enthusiasm from the road planners is evident from bus info signs to road markings and I am sure most of it is unnecessary and would not be missed if it were removed.

Our side roads are becoming un-navigable due to the obsession with humps, build outs, chicanes and potholes, not to mention the silly coloured tarmac surfaces to warn us of cycle tracks and road junctions and build ups across for pedestrians and bollards and railings and yellow lines and red white and blue ones too – the list goes on!

Do we need to be perpetually warned and advised and mollycoddled how when and where to get from one side of town to the other as though we hadn’t the common sense to do so using our own limited imbecile initiative?

Trevor Murdin
Flemming Crescent
Leigh