2nd June 2007: ‘Gimme five’…. We are paying for your case, would you like to contribute to ours?

Transport Solutions for Lancaster and Morecambe are making a tongue in cheek appeal to County Councillors. We want the Councillors to help fund TSLM's case at the forthcoming Heysham M6 Link Public Inquiry, by asking the Councillors to buy 5 of their £1 funding appeal tickets.

“It’s only fair," says David Gate, chair of the group "we as tax payers are paying for the Council's high powered lawyers and experts. It seems only right that we should ask them for a contribution to our campaign to stop the road wrecking our district.”
“We will be writing to every County Councillor asking them to 'gimme five'," said David, "we will give them five good reasons why the road is a bad idea. If the dual carriageway goes ahead we as tax payers have to stump up £156 million to build it, and it only adds more HGVs to the local traffic chaos. We then have to pay yet more for congestion busting measures.”

“Our appeal to them will come as less of a shock than their decision to build the monster road was to us; we got no chance of a consultation on their plan to turn the Green Belt into tarmac and concrete. The Councillors stand a chance of winning five worthwhile prizes, that’s more benefit than we get from their road."