(A COPY of a letter sent to councillors Neil Moore, Lis Burnett and Gwyn John)

Please read the following link and act upon it ASAP and before you have blood on your hands.

We in Barry and the Vale are fed up to the back teeth of your lame excuses for these cuts to our essential services. With particular regard to street lightingbeing switched off at midnight.

As a direct result of your penny pinching attitude crime is now on the increase. A local self-employed building contractor and neighbour has had his works van broken into outside his house for the second time since you all agreed to this stupid and dangerous practice of turning off selected street lights after midnight.

He has lost all his tools of his trade for the second time since your weird plans were sanctioned and put into practice. On the second break-in his insurance company has refused to pay out and refused to cover him against theft in the future.

Why do you not spend our money wisely in the first place and use some of the £70 million-plus that you have in reserve funds. Why spend over £250,000 on the refurbishing of the council chambers when there was nothing wrong with the previous decor?

Why build cycleways that are hardly ever used? Bus lanes that cause bigger bottlenecks than the worth of it? Bus stops built out into the traffic flow and directly opposite each other as in Broad Street, who’s whose crazy plan was that?

Busses arrive simultaneously and travelling in opposite directions and the whole road is completely blocked. This is an obvious danger to ambulance, fire and police in an emergency and could also result in possible death.

Where was your highways manager educated? If at all he was ever educated. Half the stuff you lot are responsible for could not be made up. It is all downright stupidity.

Here is the link which I urge you to please study at length.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f9eVHCPzKK8

Barrie V Evans

Coordinator Barry First Group

Leader restore street lighting in the Vale campaign