Do You Dig It
Friends and Readers. It seems from reports received that on average 11,500 roads are dug up in Edinburgh each year. that is strange as Edinburgh apart from the city centre is full of pot holes and does not seem to get any better. Time and time again roads are closed off or partially blocked and for weeks on end.
Men in yellow jackets just smile at the chaos and added congestion that they cause. What if any is the council policy on road repairs or improvments if the same road is dug up for one reason or another. As it is there is already a war on the motorist, and very rarely is it the non licensed non insured car driver who is punished. We have speed bumps speed cameras hand held speed traps police vehicles with cameras in them how much does all this war against the motorist cost.
And now we have the road digger who comes along to wage a war of frustration against the motorist. Yes indeed we have a transport policy, cause maximum problems increased frustration excess charging and bingo we might force these dreadful motorists off the road.
Yes you might indeed do that and that would leave the roads free for the privileged to drive their kids to private school, and drive these dreadful four wheel drive monstors and get in everybodys way.
Yes we have a policy get those terrible working class people off the road and let their betters have the roads to themselves. Thats all very well but since it is those working class people who as usual pay most of the taxes for everything anyway, should it not be the other way round.
Should there not be a premium payed for the school run, should the price of petrol not be means tested so the better off pay a fairer share. why is it always the low income earners who pay and suffer the most, and that is with a Labour Government.
So the next time you are held up by the council policy on road repairs or are told by a little red sign that the street you want to go down is closed off and you were not even consulted, spare a thought for those who are much better off than you are. If it was not for the non road policy or sheer stupidity of Edinburgh City Council, what would they talk about at their dinner parties.