Sir – The county council is considering spending £840,000 to tackle a traffic problem in the London Road (London Road traffic plan unveiled, July 11).
Elsewhere in the same issue of your paper, we are told that the same council intends to cut £340,000 from its school transport budget. Living near the London Road it is possible to see the marginal benefit of the former plan, but surely politics is about priorities.
Though not personally affected by the proposed school transport cuts, it seems to me crazy that the easing of a very slight traffic problem should have priority in the allocation of precious resources at a time of severe budgetary constraints.
We will be told that budget allocations are set in stone and cannot be switched. If so, it seems lamentable that the county council considers a slight delay to cars as a more important matter than the welfare of children and their families.
Stewart Jeffrey, Oxford
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