Letter: Road safety cash wasted

LETTER: Money provided by the Assembly Government paid for those large painted orange squares in Gungrog Road, Welshpool, along with 20mph signs on other streets. The problem is, of course, the majority of motorists take no notice whatsoever.

That is also the case in Salop Road where those steel pillars with turning blades by the medical centre, and several others in the area, all to display the word 'slow' – cost Powys County Council £20,000.

Again, these do not have any effect on the motorists speeding past. Recently I even witnessed one motorist overtaking another.

If the speed limit was raised to 50mph then most would be within the law, but at 30mph there is not much hope of that happening.

I saw an elderly man pushing his wheelchair down the narrow Wellington Crescent with a car approaching and another vehicle following.

He was unable to use the pavement because on the one side it tapers off against a stone wall and one the other side of street, apart from being a very uneven asphalt surface, the council have not dropped the kerb. Parts of Gungrog Road are like a pebble beach where it has not been resurfaced for years.

Please, Powys County Council, get your priorities right. Those elected county councillors on the Gungrog Ward (that also includes Wellington Crescent), open your eyes.

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