Herefordshire Council could lead the way in self-reliance

10:51am Monday 30th June 2008

HAS Councillor Roger Phillips secretly transferred his allegiance to the policies of New Labour?

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Develop the back of the Green Dragon

12:19pm Thursday 12th June 2008

I REFER to the recent letters from Councillor Bob Matthews and Mrs Janet Shott concerning the Edgar Street Grid development.

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Now is the time to get the roads right

12:51pm Thursday 5th June 2008

THE suggestion by an Independent councillor of closing Newmarket Street to all vehicles except public transport, to enable integration of new development with city centre, makes me glad the Independents do not have control of the council.

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Letter chimes with my own views.

12:50pm Thursday 5th June 2008

I WAS so pleased to read Councillor Matthews’ letter as it chimes exactly with my own thoughts. Very recently I was wandering around the Broad Street, King Street area and thought this is surely the area the council should be redeveloping. I have made the suggestion in many quarters that the Green Dragon would make an excellent library and the through way would make a good entrance to a newly developed area. Now is the time for people to be courageous and say the proposals for the ESG are time expired. Everything has moved on and there is nothing wrong with making a new start. Of course, when people have been employed to move the thing forward on a prestigious salary there is a lot of vested interest and careers on the line but this should not be the driving factor. I have not yet met anyone of either gender or of any age state they are in support of the ESG. Should we not trust the public and recognise that sometimes, when there is overwhelming opinion about something: it just maybe correct. What about a public demonstration of feeling?

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14 years is more likely than just four

12:49pm Thursday 5th June 2008

YOUR article about the new river crossing provokes, apart from an ironic and twisted smile, a few comments and questions.

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Better alternative must be found

12:47pm Thursday 5th June 2008

READING the national newspapers it is clear we are in the throes of a growing environmental and economic crisis. We have almost certainly reached peak of oil, climate change is on us, food prices soar, house prices collapse. It is abundantly clear we need to reduce car use, invest in and improve public transport and maximise local food production and distribution.

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Inappropriate speed is usually the cause

11:47am Thursday 29th May 2008

I AM delighted the driver and passengers survived an accident outside our house in April with only minor injuries. They were extraordinarily lucky in that among the very first to arrive on the scene were an off-duty fireman and a nurse on her way to work. In the more than 20 years that we have lived here, we have lost count of the number of vehicles that have visited our garden, though there had been hope that, with this year’s growth, the hedge would finally have healed itself from the last visit. Inappropriate speed has usually been the root cause of the accidents.

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We are in charge of a deadly weapon

11:46am Thursday 29th May 2008

I WAS rather disappointed in the tone of Edward Fowler-Wright’s letter (Readers’ Times – April 23) that seemed to cast doubt on the value of the Hereford Times’ Safer Driving Campaign.

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A bypass is not one of the solutions

11:40am Thursday 29th May 2008

SO Roger Phillips and the Conservatives announce their determination for a bypass in the same week as oil prices hit a new high. Not an irony that will be noticed by the same council which tried to close our schools ‘to improve education’, or buried our heritage under a road ‘to preserve it for future generations’.

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