Now the East Riding Council proposes 20 weeks of road works on Railway Street/Lord Roberts Road which will lead to further disruption of south-bound traffic.

This disruption would not be nearly so severe if the present highway authority - and its equally woeful predecessor or authority - had exerted themselves to build the south-eastern bypass when it was first mooted over 30 years ago!

This is the same Conservative highway authority which has spent an alleged £90,000 to paint white lines and little green patches for cyclists on Manor Road. Your readers will be relieved to know that motorists in the Manor Road area were not in the habit of gratuitously unseating cyclists before the arrival of these lines, nor are they now going to risk head-on collisions by using only the limited space allocated to them.

Perhaps some of our newly elected and publicly inquisitive Conservative councillors could provide the answer to this question.
Who is running the asylum?

M J Nicholson
Eden Road
Beverley