WITH regard to the new crossings in Ashley Road, Parkstone, I noted in the Echo online many commented why ever did the council not include bleepers in the first place?

As many said, why did the council not think that the bleeper is anything but a great help to all of us and of course to those who are blind.

Indeed for the blind it must be more than a nightmare trying to find a tiny rotating nozzle under the control box. How unbelievable.

In the end it gets beyond comprehension in this area why we seem to spend all our time in Upper Parkstone having to tell our council the staggeringly obvious.

First it’s the toilets catastrophe.

Councillors who were delighted they were closed then decided it was a disaster and launched a petition, which then failed so we are stuck with no toilets in Ashley Road presumably forever.

And now in a major project the council decides not to put in bleepers at crossings and one of the same councillors for the toilet closure, Councillor Le Poidevin, tells us (Echo 25th September) she is “delighted” a committee agrees the bleepers should now go in.

So how come you have to ask didn’t the council get it right in the first place?

This is, as with the toilets, a second case where this councillor, and others, are on the committee that approved original key decisions.

Again and again councillors spending their time reversing disaster decisions, then telling us they are “delighted” finally getting it right but then it’s the public that has in the end had to tell them the staggeringly obvious: crossings need bleepers, of course, and high streets need public toilets, of course.

DAVE HOWIE, Bournemouth Road, Poole