ON Friday October 12, I was late for my training course for the third time that week, due to the heavy traffic.

I use public transport and have to travel through Blackburn town centre, where the problem arises.

My bus is held up in queues of traffic caught up in the new one-way system.

How many drivers traverse the town centre unnecessarily, out of habit, when they should ideally be using the new inner relief roads?

I have a number of ideas which I feel would ease traffic flow.

The first, easiest and least controversial, would be to educate drivers about the new road system by signposting the inner relief road at all its entry points so they know which way to go to their destination.

Another fairly simple solution would be to reduce the number of cars on the road.

This could be achieved by car share, where two or more drivers take each other to work on alternate days. It everyone did this, it would more than halve the cars on the road.

Park and ride schemes would mean one 70-seat double deck bus could carry the same number of passengers as 50 cars in about one twentieth of the road space.

EDDIE LESLIE, Ivinson Road, Darwen.