Leeds council traffic department are stupud.
There is no other reasonable conclusion for the idiocy I received through the post the other day…

During the latter chunk of last year, they carried out a traffic survey – of the “where have you come from…” / “…going to” type, in an attempt to figure out why there are congestion problems.

Good so far :)

What’s not so good are the ridiculous  conclusions they have come up with – bear in mind this is from their OWN letter…

They claim there is too much traffic using our streets as a “rat run”. Not 100% true but we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt…
They also claim that  52% AM and 40% PM was ‘through traffic’ – there are 2 good schools here and the council ‘aknowledge’ that the figure MIGHT be skewed by this fact. Erm… OF COURSE THEY WILL!!
This invalidates the surveys figures from the start!

They go on to say that the most effective measure would be to close some roads, but this would have “significant inconvenience” to the residents
REALLY??? CLOSING ROADS WOULD CAUSE ‘INCONVENIENCE’!?!
Call Stephen Hawking – his position is in jepardy, this person’s a genius!!

Then they decide that the only way to ‘reduce’ traffic is to ignore that issue entirely and propose making the entire village a 20MPH zone. These “‘reduce speeds and generally improve road safety” but “such schemes do not significantly reduce traffic levels”.
Wasn’t the point that you said that traffic levels needed reducing?

This next part is the REALLY annoying bit…

The next part of the letter says that, in the last 5 years there have been 5 accidents in the village (all of ‘slight’ severity):

1. A cyclist rode out ‘heedless’ of traffic
   = nothing to do with speed or amount of traffic.
2. Another accident involved a pedestrian and a stationary vehicle
   = nothing to do with speed or amount of traffic.
3. A motor cyclist skidded on some wet leaves
   = nothing to do with speed or amount of traffic.

The council appear to be solving (at GREAT inconvenience to the residents) a problem which DOESN’T EXIST!
This is why I pay my taxes…

WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE OF THIS FIASCO WANTS SACKING!

The only problem with traffic in this village is the idiot parents who park stupidly and will “only be 5 minutes”. These idiots then procede to block the entire road in their 4x4s; or drive on the wrong side of the road to get that extra metre closer to the school door, ‘cos little Johnny legs don’t work properly…

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