I FEEL compelled to write regarding traffic calming on the Queensway estate in Wribbenhall (Shuttle/Times and News, October 17).

I am a resident of the Meadow Rise estate and consider myself as one of the silent majority who have looked on as local roads have been messed with and then messed with again.

I would concede Queensway is used by drivers, myself included, as a by-pass to the Catchem's End "no right turn madness". But no-one speeds past Wribbenhall First School.

I sympathise with residents on Kidderminster Road because the volume of traffic that now thunders up and down is unreasonable.

I looked at buying a house on Kidderminster Road but decided against it because of the noise, pollution and danger posed by this diversion.

I think Highways Partnership manager Stuart Reynolds should re-consider his position as a new large housing estate has been built and there is now a greater awareness within the community of the problems our road system faces.

Finally, I think Mr Reynolds may be partially right in predicting the number of cars on Kidderminster Road would reduce as people find alternative routes. This will be because they will not go to Bewdley at all, further eroding the trade which so many people depend upon. The sooner they build the necessary mini-island at Catchem's End the better!

CR WALKER, Meadow Rise, Bewdley