THE letter from Holer that was in last week’s Letters certainly made a fantastically good point about the possibility of the standards of roads in the communities covered by Cowdenbeath Area Committee being affected by the budget Fife Council is able to put together.

The roads department will be one of many that will need funding but at what level that will be remains to be seen.

The alarm bells seem to have been ringing for many months about budget levels but the Scottish Government package announced last week seems to have guaranteed that there will be some funding for most of the requirements including roads.

But at what level it will allow proper maintenance of the county’s roads remains to be seen.

Where Holer was wide of the mark is that Kelty is getting attention at the expense of other areas. The roads department, which regularly reports to the Cowdenbeath Area Committee, aims to have specially designed programmes of maintenance which upgrade roads on a completely fair method.

Clearly the damage which has built up in Keltyhill Road is striking and needs attention but the resurfacing project will have been something which was on the maintenance programme, so on that point Holer should not worry that Lochgelly’s problems are going to be ignored.