DEAR Editor – I seem to be having great difficulty getting out of Worcester lately – Hallow road closed, three-way traffic lights at the end of Broadway Grove and various other roadworks and traffic hold-ups.

On Friday last week my parents and I set out from St John’s to visit my brother in Cropredy, via Stratford, therefore avoiding too much motorway driving.

It took us 30 minutes to drive along the bypass and over Carrington Bridge. I honestly thought that the amount of work carried out there, not to mention the amount of money spent, would have alleviated traffic issues to a large extent. How wrong I was!

Imagine our horror when we encountered yet more traffic en route to the Whittington roundabout. When we had filtered down to one lane (amid many frayed tempers and honking horns) the problem was revealed… a man on a tractor was mowing the central reservation at the top of London Road.

Health and safety necessitates that an entire lane is closed off on each side of the road. Again carnage in all directions.

Three-quarters of an hour after leaving home, we got on the A422 towards Stratford, only to find that it was closed just before Upton Snodsbury.

As was the lane into Crowle. We decided to give up and go home, via town, also carnage – arrived back over an hour and a half later having gone precisely NOWHERE.

Julie Reynolds

Worcester