The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
I go on holiday and return two weeks later, shocked to read in the local newspapers that the cost of the average speed cameras on the A16 Spalding to Crowland road has risen in nine months from £85,000 to £200,000.
Could you please tell me how someone can get a estimate so wrong by £115,000 and is still employed at the Lincolnshire Highways Department?
Since the A16 was first talked about, the cost must have been under-estimated by millions of pounds. That will have to be paid for by us, the tax payers.
John Siddle, the Lincolnshire’s Road Safety Department spokesman, now states, there is no estimated start date, but he hopes to have them working by?? Let’s wait and see what he comes up with next.
The cameras will help, they are not the answer to the dreaded A16/B1166 Radar Corner – some of the junction’s road options must be removed to make it safer.
I’d like to think before more lives are lost, MP John Hayes, who is now The Minister for The Highways Department, can instigate a major shake up of the shambles called the Lincolnshire Highways Department.
David Barfoot
Shepeau Stow
