SIR - After all the reports about the Ketch and Whittington roundabouts and the so called road improvements in recent months and weeks, until now I have resisted writing my observations.

I fully agree with the comments of the motorists and local residents of the waste of our the tax payers money in their planning which has been by the county highways department (two into one won't go).

I think that before the start of the mess we find the road system is in, why did the city and county councils not ask the schools to have a competition of their students to plan the new road system for the city to include another bridge in the city from Tybridge Street, and the northern ring road, as well as the Carrington Bridge and dual carriageway to the Powick roundabout.

I bet that the students would have come up with better ideas than the county highways department, who have so far ignored what the travelling public have witnessed of their fiasco.

I hope now that the county highways department will at last listen and pay heed to what the travelling public are saying to what is needed and to put right the mess that they have already caused in the last year or so.

N M DUNKLEY Worcester