Coventry North East MP, Bob Ainsworth has complained to Stella Manzie, Chief Executive of Coventry City Council, about expensive bureaucratic systems that are excessively delaying consideration of petitions on road safety issues.

Bob Ainsworth sent the Council a petition asking for a pelican crossing on Wyken Croft outside the Primary School.

The issue had previously been raised with local councillors and was raised with him during the General Election campaign.

However, the Council wrote back saying that if the issue was to be considered it had to be raised with the local councillors and formally presented.  Only then would the matter be considered.  He had a similar response to a letter asking for a change to the phasing of the traffic lights at the Sewall Highway and Blackberry Lane junction.

Bob said:

“This is madness.  We have a very dangerous situation about which both the local Councillors and myself agree.  

“They have already raised the matter and I, the local MP, have raised the matter and the Officers of the Council want to treat the issue like a game of snakes and ladders and have us start all over again.

“This is not a game I or my constituents want to play.  I would like the matter to be given consideration in a normal and straight forward way.”

Stella Manzie has promised to look into the situation.