Traffic lights solve nothing (From Echo)

Traffic lights solve nothing

12:01pm Monday 8th March 2010 in

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Can I ask Southend councillor Anna Waite how long she has lived in Southend?

If it has been a few years, she should cast her mind back to the time we had traffic lights at the then junction of Sutton Road and Eastern Avenue.

The traffic had horrendous tailbacks, then someone decided to put in a roundabout. Life was so much easier and there was the steady flow of traffic we have today.

So why, when London councils are thinking of removing traffic lights to try to make the traffic flow more freely, is she wasting our money to put in traffic lights at Cuckoo Corner?

This will create a bottleneck at the Bell traffic lights, not to mention the destruction of those lovely Scots pines which grace our town.

I say stop wrecking our town, which I have lived in for 63 years.

Marj Playle
Tudor Road
Eastwood

...Ahmad Khwaja (Mar 2) may be correct in his letter outlining Southend Council’s plans to plant trees to replace ones removed on the Victoria Avenue roundabout.

However, he seems to forget it takes half our lifetime for these trees to become anything like the ones being removed.

Established trees provide a secure ecosystem for thousands of smaller plants and organisms, not to mention the aesthetic beauty of an established tree and the oxygen it gives.

If we are going to remove trees every time they get in the way of some harebrained plan, we might as well have bonsai in pots.

Looking at the proposed plans for the seafront, Anna Waite is halfway there.

Susan Buckingham
Maple Square
Southend