Letters: Roadworks and cinemas – Bedford Independent readers respond to letters

Editor,

In response to the letters:

Bowling alley?

Good evening I want to know why these buildings [Aspect Leisure Park] cannot be changed into a bowling alley/amusement arcade and restaurant like the ones in Luton and Milton Keynes.

I’ve been to both places and they are always busy this would create jobs and also somewhere for all ages.

I have heard they are thinking about a block of flats, why? This area is perfect for such entertainment.

Nanette Henry
Hockcliffe Road
Bedford

Access to shops

The council in Bedford needs to look at access to retail parks. They set them up now they need to look at the access, they are where people now shop.

Fancy coming in on Woburn Road to go all through Kempston to get to the shops blocking Elstow Junction and Ampthill Road.

While there why not put a toilet block in and consider putting a Sunday market in?

David Clarke
Stuart road
Kempston

EWR roadworks

I note the frustration of readers of your paper and residents of Bedford to the “minor” congestion being caused by St Paul’s Sq works and the gas works on Ashburnham Road.

I wonder how many people are aware of the extreme and town-crippling congestion which will occur when the East West Rail works start.

Ampthill Road, Cauldwell Street, Bromham Road and Ford End Road bridges all have to be raised, each being shut, one after the other, for 1 year to 18 months with additional road closures, diversions and one-way systems in place.

You don’t need a lot of imagination to realise what this will do to our already very busy town.

And this will go on for 6 to 10 years – yes years.

I still can’t believe our Councillors are happy for this to go ahead.

We will see real frustration then and as one of your readers has already said with regard to the current works, no one will want to come into Bedford.

I think more awareness needs to be given to this project.

Jane Kelly
Althorpe Street
Bedford

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