Can't be long now before we hit rock bottom.
Why is it that only the general public can see that this town needs a proper ringroad - just like the one that was being proposed over 20 years ago?

Had someone in power actually grown a pair & rubberstamped this proposal, we would not be seeing any of the problems that we have today.
In fact, Had a decent road system been in place, we might not have lost much of our industry, in fact, we might even have been able to encourage industry to the town (take MK as an example of a thriving town in a poor climate).
Had a decent ringroad been in place by now, the proposal to build an additional 20k + houses around the town wouldn't be seen as such a huge problem - the new houses could simply be built as villages on the other side of the ringroad.
And as for road repairs, well a decent ringroad would have taken all the heavy traffic away from the narrow town streets meaning they would have taken far less pounding over the years - so the £2million emergency money for potholes could have stayed in the bank for possibly another 10 years?
It's OK to say I have the benefit of hindsight but the fact that a ringroad was proposed some 20 years ago means at least one person in the halls of power had foresight (so no doubt they got rid of him at the earliest opportunity!).

You like a rant at the council, don't you JR...
TBH, I've been following this shambles and decide to join in.
I mean. it took them 3-4 weeks to work out they needed to re-sequence the traffic lights. FFS, anywhere else, and I do mean ANYWHERE, they'd have been there monitoring traffic flow from day 1 and fine tuning.
Never mind, at least Fleet marston got it's staion, and I can't wait to see Keith Chegwin at our new theatre (about the calibre we'll get...ask Aldi...)

My rant is aimed at the incompetents in power.
How the heck these idiots ever got to be in charge, I will never know - but they certainly didn't get to be in charge by showing how good they were at their jobs - so my guess is that they got to be where they are purely on the gift of the gab and a few useless qualifications (and perhaps even the old boy network?)

They got in charge, as you put it, through a system called 'Democracy.' We've had it for quite some time now in the UK so I'm surprised that you don't know anything about it. Basically, it involves these things called 'elections' which happen every four years or so. At an 'election' the public get to cast a vote for who they most want to run the council, and the candidates with the most votes end up doing so. Now, it's not without its flaws, but the great advantage of this system is that it ensures that candidates are elected to office, not through the 'old boy network' or nepotism or anything else like that, but through persuading the general public, through their policies, that they are the best for the job.

Sarcasm aside, I think that there are genuine reasons for arguing that Bucks County Council have done a substandard job with regard to road transport in Aylesbury. I would even go as far as to say that I wouldn't mind seeing them suffer for it at the next County Council election. But I have to question whether any purpose is served by posting whinging rants on the internet that frankly display a crass ignorance of the system.

Ahhhh yes, the good old democratic system.
There was a time when people firmly believed that the Tories looked after the wealthy and Labour looked after the workers - no matter who holds the reigns, they are all driven by greed - so will always look after the money.
The multi-party system ensures the success of two parties who have a staunch core of voters, the rest of the electorate dithers depending on the big news story of the week.