Eco friendly v. traffic jams on the M40
Have you ever read the Leader of the Council’s blog?
No, suspected not. It’s reasonably useful for finding out what is rattling the cages of the Council at the moment though… and the current hot topic is the battle about improvements to Junction 9 of the M40.
Basically, motorists have been complaining about the traffic jams at the junction for years, but now it emerges that any further improvements depend on an eco-town being given the green light (excuse the pun)
Our esteemed leader, Cllr Keith Mitchell, gets quite irate at this point:
“Perhaps those at Whitehall who have taken this decision would like to travel on this section of the M40 on any day of the week and see what it is like now – without a single brick of the proposed eco-town ever having been laid. While they are at it they could travel down the two-lane A34, rush hour would be a good time.”
At least he promises that “Oxfordshire County Council will not give up on this” and hopefully, in the future, we may actually be able to sail up and down the M40 as we please.
Blogs are a great way to find out information, and I think that it’s really good that people in positions of power are trying to connect with their constituents. I think that you can get a real feel from someone’s character by the way that they write, so if you’re interested in what your local council leader is like, you should definitely read his blog.
