Readers' letters - February 13

Pavement parking or total gridlock
A correspondent says people need to park partially on the pavementA correspondent says people need to park partially on the pavement
A correspondent says people need to park partially on the pavement

Regarding the letter about pavement parking (LP Letters, January 19). In and around North Preston, if people did not park partially on the pavement, the area would be gridlocked for most of the day. There are cars parked on both sides of every street for miles, in any direction.It is only the fact that they are partially on the pavement that creates the narrow channel for one car to pass through. If everyone parked fully on the road, every street would be blocked for 12 hours a day. How would doctors, health care workers and emergency services get through? Signs have now been erected near Royal Preston Hospital to highlight the fact that it is an area of residents’ speed concern. I take it that the residents, like me, are concerned about the lack of speed above one mile per hour, or is this a lame attempt to draw attention from the lack of progress along Sharoe Green Lane during the day? Regarding the 20 mile per hour speed limit, in Fulwood, when a recording device was fitted in the area, to count the number of cars around the developments, it was found that the average speed was only 14 miles per hour. I suspect that this is the case in many other areas of the city. Tony DowningFulwood

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environment‘Decision’s led to fly-tipping’Well, well, well, now who’d have thought this would happen? Ingol and Tanterton’s local council is paying for bollards at Cottam Lane to try to deter numerous acts of fly-tipping! The local household waste recycling centre is about a quarter of a mile away from Cottam Avenue, so, why not go there? Surely, it can’t be because of the new ridiculous charges brought in last year to charge for nearly everything now, can it? Lancashire County Council was warned many times that the new charges would be counterproductive and would lead to a vast increase in fly-tipping. However, they, of course, refuted these warnings, saying that, laughably, fly-tipping would not increase or be a problem! Well, in a way, it isn’t a problem for them, since the Ingol and Tanterton Neighbourhood Council and the good residents of Ingol and Tanterton are paying for bollards to be installed at the entrance to Cottam Avenue, due to the neighbourhood council tax on their yearly council tax. Will Lancashire County Council now admit to a disastrous, clueless decision to charge for nearly everything we want to ‘recycle’, not fly-tip?! I was of the understanding that the Government wants us all to recycle? I wasn’t aware that we would have to pay for privilege of doing so. It’s just an obvious way to ‘fleece’ the local council tax payers! How much does it cost the county council to clear all the fly-tipping, not only at Ingol and Tanterton, but elsewhere in the town... sorry, city?No doubt the council will put the blame on the Tories’ nasty cuts and austerity? Well, they have to blame somebody. Surely, it was a wise well thought-out decision? I think not! Angry Cottam Resident brexitBeware of what you wish for

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