Has Oxfordshire got the worst traffic planners in Britain?

You report (Oxford Mail, March 2) that our county council spent £6,000 creating a bus lane in Kidlington’s Bicester Road and then, six months later, spent £3,000 removing it, because it was making traffic conditions worse.

The council refused to listen to warnings from parish councillors and bus operators that the scheme would not work.

This is only the latest example of ineffectual planners wasting our council taxes on ill-considered traffic schemes, which include such cock-ups as the nightmare that is Oxford’s Frideswide Square (which is going to be redesigned at our expense); ignoring residents’ opinions about parking permits; making the traffic worse – not better – in Abingdon; and wasting £300,000 on 20mph speed limits which an item in your March 3 edition proves are pointless.

If the county council is as short of cash as it claims, why does it continue wasting our money on these fatuous schemes?

It could save money by sacking most of its hopeless traffic planners. And voters at the next council elections have a chance to remove these wasteful councillors.

Tony Augarde, Carlton Road, Oxford