SIR: I have been campaigning for the pedestrianisation of Brackley Street, Farnworth for the last 20 years, and I am delighted that it is now about to happen. But every shopkeeper, and anyone else who chose to make representations to me, has had a considered reply, explaining why I support pedestrianisation, and attempting to respond to any specific worries they had.
The one trick I've never mastered, though, is of turning up to meetings nobody has told me about. I leave home for work in the mornings before the post arrives. Now I can't speak for my ward colleagues, though I know they both had other meetings that evening, but the first I heard about any Brackley Street meeting was when I opened my mail last Tuesday evening when I got home from work. That was a good hour after the shopkeepers' meeting started, and I hadn't eaten. For the last 10 years at least, I've had an answering machine, which I bought myself, so that people could leave messages when I'm not in. Many people do. Did the Brackley Street shopkeepers leave me a message? No, they didn't. I'd have gone, if they'd asked me to.
?Cllr Peter D Johnston
Kendal Road
Bolton
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