It is now time to ask why the budget for road maintenance ran out. Patently it did. Might I suggest one of the following:
1. Persistent failure of expensive "road calming" measures, together with further waste trying to maintain same?
2. Excessive and unjustified use of coloured tarmac which has broken up and has regularly to be repaired?
3. Gating of town and village entrances - for what?
4. Excessive and pointless signage, together with unnecessary carriageway decoration? And who found it necessary to agree to the government's job creation scheme of speed limit revision in times of financial strait?
4. Replacement of perfectly adequate roundabouts with traffic lights?
5. Lit "safety islands" which appear to cause more accidents than they mitigate (again with additional signage)?
6. Obsessive reporting rather than repairing - another award should shortly be forthcoming?

Just who is advising BCC? Indeed isn't it time to ask who is running BCC Transport? Is it the road signmakers, the paint suppliers or the electricity companies? It certainly doesn't seem to be any representative of the public. Is the future cost of maintenance of the above ludicrous decisions ever taken into consideration?
Did we have to reduce street lighting costs to pay the electricity bill for the additional traffic lights and lit "safety islands" and signage? The "duty of care" should be to the highway user and not in accord with the legal gurus who appear to dictate whether or not compensation should be apportioned. Time for the truth,some sackings, and some resignations? Other counties and local authorities have the same problems, yes, and probably for the same reasons as those quoted above. We should show an example of good husbandry.

'Other counties and local authorities have the same problems, yes,' but why do they get so much of a better deal?
If you can afford the fuel to drive over the border into Oxfordshire, the condition of the roads puts ours to shame. Oh, and before I forget, they generally pay less in council tax...!!!

Posted by: Red Fred, HW on 2:03pm Fri 11 Jul 08
'Other counties and local authorities have the same problems, yes,' but why do they get so much of a better deal? If you can afford the fuel to drive over the border into Oxfordshire, the condition of the roads puts ours to shame. Oh, and before I forget, they generally pay less in council tax...!!!
'Other counties and local authorities have the same problems, yes,' but why do they get so much of a better deal?
If you can afford the fuel to drive over the border into Oxfordshire, the condition of the roads puts ours to shame. Oh, and before I forget, they generally pay less in council tax...!!!

try the midlands..the area of mass unemployment, with car factory's all closed etc, up there the roads are like billiard tables compared to Bucks...
someone somewhere down here are filling their pockets, and laughing all the way to the bank

I agree with all that has been said, about the roads in Bucks. But I bet, the people who run the County Council will be voted back into power next May. We in Bucks need a Council with no over all control. They then have to work with each other to get the balance correct on policy. Not just nodded through as at present.
I wonder why the is traffic lights at the London Rd/ Hmasley Lane junction, does a County Councillor live near by????

Town-man, I think Councillor Shakespear lives up Hammesly Lane........

Town-man, I think Councillor Shakespear lives up Hammesly Lane........

I agree the roads in High Wycombe area are falling to bits while the councillors sit around & spend money on crap that the town doesn't need