Dear Editor

We might have been tempted to chuckle over Herefordshire Council’s comment in last week’s Ross Gazette that anybody who is concerned about potholes or the absence of road markings should report them to its website or through its hotline. Unfortunately the situation is no laughing matter.Reporting such defects is all very well. Unfortunately there is little evidence that sufficient action is being taken as a consequence.

Nor should it be necessary to report defects on the surface of the A40. Balfour Beatty Living Places vehicles are up and down Herefordshire’s key commercial artery all day so as the county council’s highway maintenance contractor it must realise how bad the situation has become.The bald and brutal truth is that the county’s highway network is, quite literally, falling to bits.

The section of the A40 that runs through the Lea is in an especially shocking state but we are only too well aware that there are other roads in Herefordshire that are in an equally appalling condition.Perhaps voters might care to raise this issue with candidates in the forthcoming county council elections? We certainly will.

Stephen Banner

and Anne Banner

Lea