Boston By-passed?

Sunday 20th July 2008

You hear a lot about a by-pass for Boston and how everyone in public office is clamouring to get one so I may as well add in my fourpence worth.

The Government has washed its hands of the affair and tell us its up to Lincolnshire County Council.

Boston has seven out of seventy seven councillors on LCC, so not much hope there.

LCC cannot fund such a project, it is already £200 million in debt(we pay the interest on this through our Council Tax) and rising.

It had to go cap in hand to the Regional Assembly in Melton Mowbray who only gave Lincolnshire funding for two major road projects, same as it gave the vast county of Rutland, so not much hope there either.

Boston Borough Council, stuffed full of by-pass councillors has NO/ZERO authority to obtain the cash, so even less hope there.

OK what do we do?

We must keep campaigning on this issue but let's be realistic, it will take a very long hard slog over many, many years to get what we deserve and that is why I and local UKIP candidates, as in May last year, will not promise something we cannot deliver within our term of office.

Sadly in the meantime Boston is dying as local people go to Spalding or Skegness to shop as it is so much quicker and despite the horrendous rise in fuel costs still viable economically.


"The party now expects a new road..probably in six or seven years" Cllr Sheila Newell Boston Bypass Independent, May 2007

"..There never was a promise that a by-pass is coming, that's out of our hands" Cllr. Richard Austin, Leader of Boston Bypass Independents, May 2007


"Try turning the traffic lights off at both ends of John Adams Way" Jodie Sutton, UKIP candidate, Five Villages Ward, May 2007