I WOULD like to express my concern at the inactivity of the tunnel police on my journey home on December 28 at approximately 5.30pm.
On returning to Wirral, a car in front of me appeared to have a drunken driver. It was following closely to the white line and in numerous instances swerving into the other Birkenhead-bound lane.
Other drivers and I kept our distance and beeped our horns to attract attention.
However, when we reached Birkenhead there were no tunnel police waiting to stop the car in question.
I would like to ask how someone like this can pass through the tunnel without being apprehended, especially at this time of the year?
Mr Milne, Wirral
Road congestion
LIVERPOOL'S status as a city of culture is wide open to ridicule.
Over the holidays I took the train service back from London. On final arrival at Lime Street the roadways along by the station to the Adelphi hotel were jammed with traffic attempting to reach the station to collect passengers.
It was not a dramatic boom in car ownership that has created this congestion.
The cause is the most haphazard efforts of our own highways department to maximise the disruption of routes , most of which previously coped adequately, then to replace them with endless queues and jams.
If visitors on their first arrival to Liverpool are to face such chaos, what impression will they leave with?
Cllr Steve Radford, leader of the Liberal Party Group St John and Red Cross
I READ in Monday’s ECHO about the job the paramedics do in the stadiums of Merseyside. There was only one line about the people who are always first on the scene, St John Ambulance. Nothing was even mentioned of the Red Cross volunteers who operate at Prenton Park. Whenever someone takes ill, the first port of call is to the nearest St John member who are based in the stands.
There are doctors on standby, and a whole host of modern equipment such as defibrillators and oxygen etc. The only time a paramedic gets involved is if they happen to be close at the time or they have been called by another party or if they have to be transferred to hospital.
I myself am a volunteer, having worked at both stadiums, and want to thank all the volunteers fortheir assistance in the past. Happy new year.
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