Editor,
The current situation of roadworks in the town centre is causing complete gridlock.
Read: Regeneration of St Paul’s Square is “vital” part of £4.98m town centre funding
Midland Road improvements are taking ages for what appears to be a simple upgrade. This week, work has started on St Paul’s Square causing delays down to Cauldwell Street. Surely someone should co-ordinate the timing of these projects!
Ashburnham Road has been dug up with three-way lights for over a week, with no evidence of any work being done. And now Clapham Road is being dug up on the way to the carbuncle of the Fairfield Park interchange where accidents occur on a regular basis.
Add to this the tragic state of disrepair of the roads in the borough. Potholes everywhere. Access to the town from Clapham Road and Bromham is particularly bad and some rural roads are awful and dangerous.
Surely, there must be someone in overall control of this situation. I suppose they might be comfortable working from the sanctuary of their own home it does not matter the chaos that occurs.
This certainly does not make the venue attractive to inward investment and economic prosperity.
PS. Really enjoy Bedford Ian’s work and views on local issues.
John Homer
Bromham
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