This is a fiasco that has been developing for many years. What on earth did Bromsgrove Council and the developers think was going to happen when they built hundreds of houses on the Oakalls?

There are no facilities on the Oakalls. No shops, no schools, no doctors, no pub....nothing. Is it any wonder there is a flow of traffic onto the roundabout?

Slideslow roundabout, as you are aware, forms part of the Bromsgrove eastern by-pass. These 'improvements' are doing nothing but causing even longer queues on a road that should be re-named the Bromsgrove Crawl.

The whole idea of a by-pass is to take traffic away from the town, not to clog it up again.

Placing traffic lights on this island will be the death of the by-pass, and I have yet to see anyone crossing the road in that area anyway.

Further along the road there is a pedestrian bridge. Why wasn't that considered instead of traffic lights? Speaking of traffic lights, months of misery were endured by all negotiating the lights at the New Road/eastern bypass junction.

The old lights were replaced with some new lights that do.....er.....exactly the same. What a waste of public money.

The eastern by-pass should be widened to make two lanes, along its entire length, and speed cameras should be introduced at regular intervals to prevent motorists who blight my peace and quiet with their ferocious acceleration.

PJ Wilson, Wellington Road,

Bromsgrove