Voter apathy to blame for new traffic lights?

In last week’s Advertiser (Viewpoint, March 25), Dr Brian Smith was complaining about yet more roadworks, this time at the junction of the A4 and Oldfield Road.

I was already angry about this load of nonsense, but now I realise that it’s in order to replace a perfectly functioning mini-roundabout with more traffic lights, I am very angry!

What idiots decided to cause all this temporary disruption, just to establish a more permanent disruption with a new set of traffic lights?

Once traffics lights are there, it will cause even more unnecessary delays along this stretch of road.

If you complain to the highways department they’ll say it’s ‘the councillors’ and if you complain to the the councillors they’ll say ‘it’s the highways department’ and so on…

In fact it’s a microcosm of the massive idiocy happening right now on the nearby M4.

Gangs of guys in high vis vests are busy turning the M4 into a death-trap, or as the useless politicians call it ‘a smart motorway’.

In reality, the reason local government in Maidenhead and indeed elsewhere, is so incompetent, is because people just cannot be bothered to vote or think about their vote.

And even if they do vote, in Maidenhead you could put up a good-looking pig with a blue rosette and the Tory faithful would vote for it – because that’s what they’ve always done.

A while back, I distributed leaflets for The Borough First party and I was met with a wall of apathy – people just can’t be bothered and so the mismanagement of Maidenhead continues.

So why can’t the idiots in Maidenhead council just take a look at nearby Marlow?

This is a town with masses of traffic and yet it has literally NO traffic lights – pedestrian lights, yes, but no actual traffic lights.

Apart from really major junctions, miniroundabouts are a far preferable solution to traffic lights, because they are flexible and responsive to varying traffic flows. MALCOLM JAMES STRETTEN Boulters Lane

Maidenhead