I READ with interest in the Times of the necessary priority given, yet again, to resurfacing Cowdenbeath’s main artery.
I know councils are not allowed to veer across fiscal subheads, and if surpluses of funds remain unused they lose them in the new financial year, but as a motorist I am slightly bemused, given the state of other more deserving capillary roads in the Cowdenbeath area, some of which have substantial unattended pot holes, which invite repair.
I am certainly aware of a couple of patches of wear and tear on Cowdenbeath’s High Street while driving down it, but these can be avoided with care and could, I have thought, been repaired by workmen overnight, or over several nights, with minimum disruption.
Meantime we have the inconvenience of having to take alternative routes for a period of up to six weeks while this marathon programme is underway.
I have already heard an unmanageable flow of traffic, buses, heavy goods vehicles etc taking more circuitous suburban routes and as a consequence colliding occasionally into people’s property.
Just imagine what chance these people have in seeking restitution from the council’s law teams; none I suspect!
On the first day of operations I sauntered onto the main street. It was cordoned off like a war zone, with a sodding great 12’ deep crater in the middle of the road.
Why? Does drainage require such a depth?* This programme is also disastrous for business. I live about a mile from Morrisons, our main supermarket, and there is no way I’m going to manually lug two heavy bags of groceries back.
But there’s always taxis! As to getting a taxi, well they too are subject to unnecessary diversions delays and possible entrapments.
It’s all very well assuming the public’s patience, rather it’s a case of the public being imprisoned by council diktat. Now there’s talk of bin collections taking place only once a month. What unprecedented joy!
VICTOR JEREMY-CLARKSON MELDREW, Cowdenbeath.
*Maybe they were looking for Jimmy Hoffa.
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