CHRISTCHURCH residents and visitors to the town will know that Christchurch’s roads are thoroughly jammed up.

In the week that the Daily Mail rated Christchurch as the 10th place where people most want to live in the UK, traffic flow in the town was gridlocked.

It’s an intolerable situation that councillors have petitioned over for two decades or more, the most recent initiative being last year, scraping together a pitiful, almost laughable, £23,000 for a feasibility study that will add little to what is already known i.e. that Christchurch needs a relief road.

It’s a subject that, in principle at least, receives almost universal support from councillors, but the plain fact of the matter is that when extending the begging bowl to HM government for the £30-£50 million of funding required, the combined voices of councillors representing the smallest borough in the country haven’t been heard above larger, and dare I say more “northern”, cities and towns in this country.

Of course in merging with Bournemouth and Poole councils there will be down-sides, but with an increase in volume of the chorus petitioning for government to relieve Christchurch’s long-suffering residents, could one upside to the merger be the promise of jam tomorrow?

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