SIR – I read in the Worcester News (September 11) that our county highways department is proposing putting in a filter lane at the Ketch traffic island from the southbound A38 to Broomhall Way.

When will this department learn that two into one doesn’t go?

The only effect of such a slip road will be to cause a traffic queue in the slip road as the vehicles wait to enter the single carriageway of Broomhall Way.

At the moment those waiting to enter Broomhall Way via the Ketch island do get some breaks in the traffic due to traffic movement on the island itself.

If they use the proposed slip road they will have to wait for a break in the traffic on Broomhall Way itself.

It’s another waste of our hard-earned money by the department that gave us the expensive, so-called ‘improvement’ to the Whittington island where I still see accidents occurring on a regular basis.

Here again we are talking about two into one if you are travelling towards Malvern.

This island works fine in the other direction because the slip road takes vehicles on to a dual carriageway where they can merge.

It makes me very angry when I see the lack of maintenance of road and lane surface markings which, to a stranger to the area, must cause a lot of problems at night.

Why can’t they spend money where it is needed – road maintenance?

TERRY JAMES

Pershore