Local Channel M Interview
Went straight from teaching to King’s Road playground for a quick swing, awaiting interviewer and camera man, for today’s 5-7pm news programme. The feature is the local elections and issues in different council wards, through interviews with candidates and residents. One of the main issues in our ward is traffic: speeding, rat runs, amount of and air pollution because of. So I talked about encouraging parents to walk their children to school – but to do more of that we need doggie-dooh free streets and safe places to cross roads, too! What I’m hoping for is the power of this piece to get our Council Officers to put more resources into our area to tackle poor, dirty pavements and improved crossing points (including the Bury New Road/Hilton/Scholes Lane junction)! We’ve been lobbying for an improved school crossing for Park View on Bury New Road – for 17 years – this year with the help of lobbying parents and the local press and Channel M – it was partly improved …
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