AS you are no doubt aware there has been a great deal of controversy between most of the people who live in Tockholes and the powers-that-be at Blackburn with Darwen Council regarding the traffic calming scheme installed in the village earlier this year.
Those of us who live on the main road still witness the traffic speeding through the village, particularly motorcycles that, due to the configuration of the speed humps, ride straight through the middle of them at great speed.
Ian Richardson, traffic and transportation manager at the council however will tell you differently. He will say that the scheme is working.
In fact, in a recent letter to me dated 17th September 17, he has proudly stated, regarding traffic calming schemes: "All borough highway schemes remain highly effective and achieve the desired results."
From this, one can only assume that the traffic calming schemes actually do work and do slow the traffic.
On Whalley Range, Blackburn, however, is an example of one of the borough's traffic calming schemes. There are speed humps and chicanes etc. all that is needed to 'calm' the traffic. However the Road Safety Partnership don't agree? Why? Because immediately after a chicane they have installed a speed camera.
DAVID GROGAN, Tockholes Road, Tockholes.
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