A WEEK or so back Gary Bebbington was writing about the slow progress around Warrington’s useless road system.

Well, I have just bought a new car and with it came an app for my phone that tells me many things about the car’s status.

One of these being the route with mileage, miles per gallon, time taken and miles per hour average.

I can confirm that on most days after 9am nearly all my routes in the town averaged about 11mph.

Out of the town it was nearer to the speeds indicated on the speedometer.

So this is a confirmation that Warrington’s roads must be some of the most badly planned in the UK as traffic was mostly light. Only one occasion did this drop to an average of 9 mph in a busier period on Friday afternoon.

Traffic lights seem to be the major problem and some sequences have changed causing hold-ups for ghost pedestrians, buses with a driver and one passenger and the prioritising of bus routes over other roads.

Tanners Lane and Winwick Road are a case in point with traffic spending more time queuing in Tanners Lane.

I am sure Warrington is causing more air pollution, due to lousy road planning, than the whole of China.

So well done road planners as we are now shopping in Widnes more and more.

GEORGE MCKIE
Great Sankey

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