FEEDBACK These changes won’t improve the road flow

Kirklees could be the first council in the country to ban single use plastic waste. Could plastic cups, straws, bags and cutlery be banned? We haven’t always walked round with a hot drink in one hand and a hot meal in the other! If you wanted a hot drink to drink outside you made a flask up, the only hot food you could get to ‘take out’ was fish and chips which were wrapped in newspaper and served with a wooden fork, otherwise it was a sandwich in a paper bag. Bottles were returnable with a refund and worth doing if you were in the pub trade. If you took your glass out of the pub it was seen as stealing. I AM not a traffic engineer but as a driver and a resident of Halifax Road for 35 years I have naturally observed the traffic flow both into town and to the motorway.

My purely amateur conclusions are that the speed of the traffic flow has deteriorated significantly since the installation of the traffic lights at Ainley Top roundabout, apparent changes in timings of the lights at the Blacker Road/Cavalry Arms junctions, the construction of the Tesco/Greggs shops on the old Grey Horse pub site and the positioning of bus stops where buses cannot pull in, which normally results in stopping the flow of the traffic behind them.

Cars parked on the road between the Cavalry Arms and Birchencliffe Hill Road are not helping matters, but where are the residents of the frontage properties expected to put their vehicles if they do not have on site parking?

I cannot see how alterations to the junctions at Blacker Road/Cavalry Arms will have any of the desired effects apart from causing pain to the residents.

You may widen the bottle but what does this achieve if the neck remains the same size!