MY wife and I note the speed restrictions in place in Bredwardine, Blakemere and Tyberton. We made representation on this matter as we supported the proposal but did not feel it went far enough.

I received a letter from Jill Tookey-Williams of Balfour Beatty advising us that the assistant director for place-based commissioning (whatever that is) had made a decision to proceed with the original scheme, having considered comments.

This does not seem a democratic process, when the public have made comments on it and no opportunity is given for further public engagement and we are the people living here.

I would have thought that, having had comments from the public, some further consultation would have been made and at least such comments/objections would have been considered by a committee, not one officer.

I think for the short distances involved the restriction is a complete nonsense.

The road nature particularly at Blakemere and Tyberton is such that because of the bends, high vehicle speeds in excess of 30-40mph are not sustainable through much of the same and vehicles are naturally slowed by the need to negotiate the bends.

The lengths of speed-restricted road for the cost of the works in speed signing etc does therefore not seem like money well spent.

We maintain that, because of the general hazard along this whole length of road from the approach to Bredwardine through and including Tyberton, it would have made more sense for this to be a restricted road in its entirety, especially given the lack of forward driving view, and the road usage with vehicle types and also a cycle route.

Indeed, it is even more difficult to make sense of the reasoning in the way this has been done when one drives through the long length of speed-restricted road through Callow off the Hereford-Abergavenny road to join with the Ross road and the long lengths of rural road involved, which is not dissimilar to the B road here.

NIGEL BULLOCK Moccas