I SHOULD like to suggest to Councillor Kibblewhite that it is his own fault that he sits in his car, in traffic jams, with his temper coming to the boil.
When I was born into this city it had just over 20,000 homes. Now it has nearly 40,000. It that time the population has doubled to 100,000.
Back then, cars were few and far between but now we have some 40,000 cars in our city. Those cars help produce more than 300,000 traffic movements in our city each day.
That traffic is being penned onto a diminishing carriageway, because of ludicrous bus schemes, which devote entire carriageways to the 144 bus trips to and from Perdiswell's park-and-ride, each of which carries an average of some five passengers.
From those traffic statistics it can be readily seen that Coun Kibblewhite is losing his temper in the traffic jams that he has helped produce. Against that background of chaos Coun Kibblewhite wishes to continue to motor around our city and he re-evaluates his ideas for further road building and Worcester's continued growth.
What we need to do, to end the increasing chaos on Worcester's roads, is stop building the houses that are bringing the traffic and recognise that park-and-ride is an incompetent band aid solution to the problem of Worcester's massive over-development.
N TAYLOR,
Worcester.
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