AS a regular traveller on the B4231 (Bream Avenue) I am appalled at the work that has been done at the junction of this road and the B4228 (St Briavels to Coleford road) at Trow Green.  

From the moment the work commenced on this junction, I and every other driver I have spoken to have been shaking our heads in disbelief.

From day one it was obvious that heavy lorries coming from Lydney and turning left to St Briavels would be unable to get around the corner without going over the verge or crossing into oncoming traffic in order to avoid it.

It also seemed more than likely that lorries turning right would  hit the verge on the opposite side of the road where they are within perhaps two feet of a deep ditch.

And after great inconvenience and disruption for more than a week, the junction was completed.

Within a couple of days the beautiful kerb stones were broken and flattened and the verge was covered with tyre tracks.

Back came the workmen to enlarge the amount of road available for left turning vehicles. I noted that once again tyre tracks had cut across the corner and on the opposite side, a vehicle had only narrowly avoided going into the ditch when turning right towards Coleford.

I have no idea who is responsible for this fiasco and I don't really care.  What I do know is that it is our hard-earned cash that is being wasted.

Heaven knows how much this work has cost but I suspect that it must run into five figures. Will the designer/planner face any sort of sanction for the inadequate design first implemented?

Probably not.  It's not his money he's been spending after all, is it?  It's ours; the hard-working general public who keep their coffers topped up.

Are the powers that be so swimming in funds that they can afford to splash out on this idiocy?

And speaking as someone who is both a domestic and business driver, I can only assume that being sued by drivers damaging their vehicles (and backs) on the potholed cart-tracks that pass for roads in the Forest is preferable to spending any of this apparently abundant cash on filling them in properly.

– Mary Bailey, Woolaston.