CAN anyone tell me what happened to the cash that was allocated to the highways authority for fixing potholes?

In the past few weeks this paper has reported of two instances of serious damage to vehicles, due to potholes; what is the authority doing about it?

A photograph in last week’s Standard of Purley Road showed a good example of a footpath that looks like a patchwork quilt.

What the highways authority do not seem to take into account is the sheer volume of traffic and the heavy goods vehicles that use our roads.

I admire the drivers of large articulated lorries and how they can negotiate into very tight spaces. But in doing so, road surfaces really take a hammering.

A shovel full of Tarmac in a pothole is basically a waste of time because with the volume of traffic passing over it, it is soon ripped out.

As for parking in Cirencester: you can have feasibility studies from now until kingdom come and still not come up with a solution. CDC are burying their heads in the sand hoping the problem will go away. It will not.

Free parking after 3pm in selected car parks and having the use of the CDC works car park at weekends is no answer. Not everyone knows where CDC car park is, especially not visitors.

BRIAN ROBBINS

Cirencester