Norman Baker ruins Lib Dems chances for election

[lincs seagull]

The roads in the south east are generally pretty good, with the unfortunate and close to home exception of east Sussex which has no motorway at all, and only very small sections of dual cariageway.

This state of affairs is also due in no small part to Gormless Norman who lobbied the government to turn down Sussex road improvements at the same time they were being approved everywhere else.

If you think east sussex is shit try lincolnshire

one road in the whole county has dual carriage way and that is the a1

plus this area has the worse deaths on the road than any other country because there is no where to overtake slow lorries and tractors.

and we get no improvements apart from that stone they lay on top that chips the windscreen.

On the fuel side might as well enjoy it while we can we are getting close to lower stocks of oil and the fuel prices will rocket so the price will go up on its own the price you have to pay for pissing arabs off

 

[Oval Gull]

I don't think he needs to bother about that. They only have one point and are bound for relegation by Christmas.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

The roads in the south east are generally pretty good, with the unfortunate and close to home exception of east Sussex which has no motorway at all, and only very small sections of dual cariageway.

This state of affairs is also due in no small part to Gormless Norman who lobbied the government to turn down Sussex road improvements at the same time they were being approved everywhere else.

Sorry to defend Baker on the A27 road issue, but he is quite right to oppose the ONLY dual carriageway scheme that the government have come up with in the last 20 years.

It wasn't an improvement to the existing A27, it was an entirely new road, to be built in parallel to the existing A27, much of which already runs in parallel to the old A27 that was replaced in the 1970s. We'd have ended up with three main roads, running together, with no access to the new road for local traffic.

Bearing in mind that most of the traffic using the A27 at busy times IS local traffic, travelling into and out of Lewes, this scheme would have done nothing for local people, other than to attract yet more cars onto the network - most of which would simply add to the length of queues through the Cuilfail Tunnel in Lewes.

Baker wasn't the only opponent of that scheme. It was rejected by most local organisations, apart from the completely unreconstructed dieselheads who want fast dual carriageways everywhere.

What we need is a solution to the real transport problems that we have. Sadly, the government have never proposed one.