A question for the county surveyor - 'What are circular and cars go round them?'

Need more clues? There are half a dozen of them on the town centre by-pass, and they tend to keep traffic flowing better than traffic lights.

Regarding the Citizen's front page story, Danger Road Probe, September 28, can I inform the county surveyor of a not so new invention - the roundabout.

He should be aware of them, having constructed so many.

We are told that there is to be: a 'major survey'; 'an investigation'; an 'in depth study' into what type of junction should join Blackburn Road to the Wheelton by-pass.

There can be few junctions more suited to a large roundabout; there is certainly the space for one (a prohibitive factor for the other problem junctions), and yet the county council ignored the logical solution in favour of the current hotchpotch. No wonder there have been so many accidents.

Instead of an investigation into alternatives, get back to basics.

Councils today seem to like 'investigations' so that friendly private consultants can be paid a fortune by ratepayers for stating the 'bleeding obvious.'

If you must have an 'investigation', it should be into a) why an 'in depth study' is needed in the first place, when the solution is so obvious; and b) what idiot came up with the current hotchpotch, when the solution was staring you in the face.

Mick Clark

Chorley