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HA spends too much on Tesco Traffic Officers
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THE OTHER day, travelling north on the M5. I counted four Highways Agency Traffic Officers in their 4x4s within a two-junction stretch of the motorway and they weren't all attending the same incident. Indeed, there wasn't an incident; they were all 'cruising'.
And this on a motorway that was brought to a standstill last week because of a shopping trolley on the carriageway during the rush hour.A few days later I saw another crew 'patrolling' a Tesco car park.
These worthies may well play an important role in clearing debris from the superslab', but they can play no part in enforcing the traffic laws.They are equipped with expensive vehicles when they are effectively only highspeed road sweepers, whereas many of our traffic police officers don't have access to computerised tachograph readers, Does the Highways Agency have a surfeit of funds to equip these units nationwide —and undertake the pointless carriageway widening around Bristol? If so. perhaps they could spend some of it training their Traffic Officers' so they can tell the difference between a Tesco car park and the M32, or give it to the grossly underfunded Vosa, Richard Jordan Bristol