Consultation on roads is vital

I see in last week’s Middy (April 28) that WSCC is launching a review into road safety, in particular ‘to make it easier to introduce a lower speed limit’. I hope any new process will take greater consideration of motorists’ views, and not just focus on what local residents want, like the current process.

I know that WSCC places notices in local newspapers, like the Middy, asking for comments about proposed speed limit reductions, but how about erecting temporary road signs along the roads affected (similar to yellow signs warning of imminent roadworks)? These signs would tell passing motorists where and how they can make their views known. In this way WSCC can get a broader range of feedback, and hopefully reach more equitable and democratic decisions.

Local residents can always move to quieter roads, but motorists have few alternative routes, particularly on the primary roads linking our towns and villages. If motorists continue to feel excluded from WSCC’s process, repeatedly-lowered speed limits will continue to be ignored, and our roads won’t get safer. GILES DARLING Church Platt, Cuckfield