ON reading the government’s proposed Road Building and Improvement Scheme for the next few years, I was disappointed to see no reference to a by-pass for Hereford.

The time and fuel wasted in proceeding through Hereford on the A49 defies imagination. Frequently I have taken over 30 minutes to get though this city.

What are our councillors doing about this? Nothing, it seems. The A49 is a very heavily used, eastern route from North Wales to South Wales. There are by-passes at Chester, Wrexham, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Church Stretton, Ludlow and Leominster along this route – in fact, every town bar Hereford.

Come on, councillors, do something useful and press for this improvement. I am sure our MPs will help.

Part of this by-pass has already been built from the A49 to Rotherwas. It is an eastern by-pass that is needed and not a western one, and part is already built.

It is gratifying to see that the proposed new road between the Abergavenny A465 road and the A49 could possibly be abandoned. This was always a hare-brained and unnecessary idea. What good would it do – and £25 million would be wasted.

It is a stupid, unnecessary proposal which will not solve any traffic problem and cannot be cost effective or justified in any way.

RG WILLIAMS Marstow, Ross-on-Wye